| Acronym | Meaning |
| ENS | European Nuclear Society |
| RPI | Rensselaer Polytechnec Institute |
| SLPA | Sea-Level Pressure Anomaly |
| CCSM | Community Climate System Model |
| SZOLD | Skewed Zeroth Order Logaorithmic Distribution Function |
| LED | Light Emitting Diode |
| LBJSC | Lydon B. Johnson Space Center |
| LAM | Limited-area Model |
| UIPPA | See IUPAP |
| OAR | Oceanic And Atmospheric Research |