| Acronym | Meaning |
| AWES | American Wind Energy Systems |
| IHOP | International H2O Project |
| MODD | Meteorological And Omega Data Digitizer |
| IRIG | Inertial Rate (MIT) Or Reference (NASA) Integrating Gyroscope |
| VNTSC | Volpe National Transportation Systems Center |
| GCM | General Circulation Model |
| GBYTE | Gigabyte (109) |
| USARP | United States Antarctic Research Program |
| ERDA | Energy Research And Development Administration |
| WWW | World Weather Watch |