| Acronym | Meaning |
| MADAM | Master Data Acquisition Module |
| ALE | Atmospheric Lifetimes Experiment |
| SMAGS | SPAN/MASnet Gateway Server |
| CAM | Cost Account Manager |
| OM | Office Of Meteorology |
| TOTO | Totable Tornado Observatory |
| IRC | International Research Council |
| FEPCA | Federal Environmental Pesticides Control Act |
| C | A Programming Language Used Extensively In Systems Software |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |