| Acronym | Meaning |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational |
| GLAS | Goddard Laboratory For Atmospheric Science |
| NWS | Naval Weather Service |
| EEPROM | Electronically Eraseable And Programmable Read Only Memory |
| DOPLIGHT | Doppler And Lightning Program |
| IMU | Inertial Measurement Unit |
| AMD | Alpha Activity Median Diameter |
| NIMROD | Northern Illinois Meteorological Research On Downbursts |
| MGA | Meteorological And Geoastrophysical Abstracts |
| DSIR | Department Of Scientific & Industrial Research |