| Acronym | Meaning |
| DFDR | Digital Flight Data Recorder |
| JMA | Japan Meteorological Agency |
| BOMEX | Barbados Oceanographic And Meteorological Experiment |
| QC | Quality Control |
| IADB | Interactive Ancillary Data Base |
| SAVE | South Atlantic Ventilation Experiment |
| RAMS | Random Access Measurement System |
| AMIE | Assimilative Mapping Of The Ionospheric Electrodynamics |
| LRU | Laser Recording Unit |
| OCR | Optical Character Reader |