| Acronym | Meaning |
| PRE-STORM | Preliminary Regional Experiment-STORM |
| PRECP | Program On Nonlinearity Of Acid Precipitation Process |
| CAST | Chinese Academy Of Space Technology |
| BCCB | Baseline Change Control Board |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| TERAFLOPS | Trillions Of Arithmetic Operations Per Second |
| CASES | Cooperative Atmosphere Surface Exchange Study |
| USDI | United States Department Of Interior |
| LACATE | Lower Atmosphere Composition And Temperature Experiment |
| SHEF | Standard Hydrometeorological Exchange Format |