In radar system simulation,the reliability of simulation results depends not only on radar and target models,but also on radio frequency (RF) environment models,including clutter,multipath,diffraction,atmosphere refraction and attenuation.In traditional radar function simulation,all of these factors are grouped into a single pattern-propagation factor and can only give limited information for radar models.In signal-level simulation,radar models require simulated echoes should include information such as delay,doppler frequency,polarization,etc.By discussing and analyzing the principles and algorithms of RF environment effects (clutter,multipath,diffraction,atmosphere refraction and attenuation),this paper is supposed to provide a general RF environment model in signal-level.Algorithms for the Weibull clutter with Gaussian power spectral density (PSD) is discussed; A standard multipath and diffraction algorithm is analyzed,and the spherical earth and knife edge(SEKE)diffraction algorithm is introduced; The ray-tracing algorithm and the effective earth model are discussed; Algorithms for the absorption of oxygen and vapor are introduced; For certain algorithms,some practical advice is given.Finally,an object-oriented RF environment effects model is implemented,which has been dedicatedly designed for signal-level simulations and can provide relatively authentic simulated RF environment for the signal-level simulation of radar systems.Two simulation examples including clutter model and multipath and diffraction model are carried out and analyzed.