| A | |
| ABARE | Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| ABN | Australian Business Number (Bureau of Meteorology: 92 637 533 532) |
| ABC | Australian Broadcasting Commission |
| ACT | Australian Capital Territory |
| ADAM | Australian Data Archive for Meteorology |
| ADF | Australian Defence Force |
| AFAC | Australasian Fire Authorities Council |
| AGLIN | Australian Government Libraries Information Network |
| AGO | Australian Greenhouse Office |
| AGS | Australian Government Solicitor |
| AIFS | Australian Integrated Forecast System |
| AIRC | Australian Industrial Relations Commission |
| ALIA | Australian Library and Information Association |
| AMC | Asset Management Committee |
| AMDISS | Australian Meteorological Data and Information Service System |
| AMFS | Australian Marine Forecasting System |
| AMM | Australian Meteorological Magazine |
| ANAO | Australian National Audit Office |
| AODC | Australian Oceanographic Data Centre |
| APESMA | Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia |
| APN | Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research |
| APS | Australian Public Service |
| ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement |
| AusAID | Australian Agency for International Development |
| AWA | Australian Workplace Agreement |
| AWC | Aviation Weather Centre |
| AWDIP | Australian Water Data Infrastructure Project |
| AWS | Automatic Weather Station |
| B | |
| BAM-4 | BMRC Atmospheric Model, Version 4 |
| BMAB | Bureau of Meteorology Advisory Board |
| BMAC | Bureau of Meteorology Audit Committee |
| BMRC | Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre |
| BMTC | Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre |
| BOG | Best Objective Guidance |
| C | |
| CAL | Computer Aided Learning |
| CASA | Civil Aviation Safety Authority |
| CCF | Central Computing Facility |
| CCS | Climate and Consultative Services |
| CCSB | Communications and Computing Systems Branch |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CHy | Commission for Hydrology of WMO |
| CIMO | Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation of WMO |
| CLI | Caller Line Identification |
| CMIP | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project |
| CMR | CSIRO Marine Research |
| CMSS | Computer Message Switching System |
| COAG | Council of Australian Governments |
| COMET | Cooperative Program for Meteorological Education and Training |
| COP | Conference of the Parties |
| COP9 | Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (Milan, December 2003) |
| CRC | Cooperative Research Centre |
| CRCCH | Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| CRIS | Cost Recovery Impact Statement |
| D | |
| DIPE | Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment (Northern Territory) |
| DMSU | Defence Meteorological Support Unit |
| DOE | Department of Energy (USA) |
| E | |
| EAP | Employee Assistance Program |
| EER | Environmental Emergency Response |
| EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone |
| EFT | Electronic Funds Transfer |
| EMA | Emergency Management Australia |
| EOS | Earth Observation Summit |
| F | |
| FCCC | Framework Convention on Climate Change of the UN |
| FMA | Financial Management and Accountability (Act) |
| FOI | Freedom of Information |
| FWCC | Flood Warning Consultative Committee |
| G | |
| GASP | Global Assimilation and Prediction System |
| GCOS | Global Climate Observing System |
| GENSI | Generalised Multivariate Statistical Interpolation Scheme |
| GEO | Group on Earth Observations |
| GEOSS | Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
| GHG | Greenhouse gas |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GSDM | Generalised Short Duration Method of PMP estimation |
| GTS | Global Telecommunications System of WMO |
| GTSM | Generalised Tropical Storm Method of PMP estimation |
| GUAN | GCOS Upper Air Network |
| H | |
| HF | High Frequency radio |
| HPCCC | High Performance Computing and Communications Centre, jointly operated by the Bureau and CSIRO |
| HREOC | Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission |
| I | |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| ICAO | International Civil Aviation Organization |
| IFD | Intensity-Frequency-Duration design rainfall information |
| IHP | International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO |
| IOC | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
| IOCI | Indian Ocean Climate Initiative |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of WMO and UNEP |
| IT | Information Technology |
| J | |
| JCOMM | Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology |
| L | |
| LAPS | Limited Area Prediction System |
| M | |
| MARS | Meteorological Archive and Retrieval System |
| MEP | Management Education Program |
| MESO-LAPS | Fine-mesh (mesoscale) versions of LAPS |
| MIS | Management Information System |
| MJO | Madden Julian Oscillation |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| N | |
| Nata | National Assosciation of Testing Authorities |
| NCC | National Climate Centre |
| NEC | Nippon Electric Company |
| NMOC | National Meteorological and Oceanographic Operations Centre |
| NMHS | National Meteorological and Hydrological Service |
| NMS | National Meteorological Service |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA) |
| NREL | National Restricted Electrical License |
| NSW | New South Wales |
| NT | Northern Territory |
| NTC | National Tidal Centre |
| NTC | National Tidal Centre |
| NTES | Northern Territory Emergency Services |
| NTFA | National Tidal Facility Australia |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
| O | |
| OEB | Observations and Engineering Branch |
| OH&S | Occupational Health and Safety |
| OMSS | Ocean Modelling and Services System |
| OOS | Occupational Overuse Syndrome |
| P | |
| PFC | Perfluorocarbons |
| PMP | Probable Maximum Precipitation |
| PNG | Papua New Guinea |
| POAMA | Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia |
| R | |
| RA V | Regional Association V (South West Pacific) of the WMO |
| RAAF | Royal Australian Air Force |
| RAN | Royal Australian Navy |
| Rapic | Radar Picture Display |
| RCL | Recognition of Current Learning |
| RFC | Regional Forecasting Centre |
| RMIT | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
| RO | Regional Office of the Bureau |
| RNDSUP | Radar Network and Doppler Services Upgrade Project |
| RSC | Regional Steering Committee |
| RSMC | Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre of WMO |
| S | |
| SAMU | Sydney Airport Meteorological Unit |
| SBSTA | Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice of the Conference of the Parties to the UN FCCC |
| SCL | Stochastic Climate Library |
| SIGMET | Significant Meteorological Hazards |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SOLAS | Safety of Life at Sea |
| SSU | Special Services Unit |
| SVAT | Soil Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer |
| T | |
| TC-LAPS | Tropical cyclone version of the LAPS |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TCWC | Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre |
| TIFS | Thunderstorm Interactive Forecast System |
| TWP-ICE | Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment |
| U | |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| UV | Ultra-Violet radiation |
| V | |
| VAAC | Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre |
| VCP | Voluntary Cooperation Programme of WMO |
| VHF | Very High Frequency |
| W | |
| WA | Western Australia |
| WMC | World Meteorological Centre |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| WMO-UNEP | WMO - United Nations Environment Programme |
| WRSC | Water Resources Station Catalogue |
| WWW | World Weather Watch Programme of WMO |
