Akronim dan Singkatan @ Radar Engineering

2-D             Two Dimensional
3-D             Three Dimensional

A               Ampere
ADC          Analog to Digital Converter
ACM          Accumulated Rainfall Product
AGC          Automatic Gain Control
AGL          Above Ground Level
AGN          Analog Ground
AP             Anomalous Propagation
APF           All Pass Filter
ASR           Air Surveillance Radar
AWIPS      Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
AWOS      Automated Weather Observing System

BAMEX     Bow Echo and MCV (Mesoscale Convective Vortices) Experiment
BASE         Low Altitude Reflectivity Product, sama dengan SRI
BITE          Build In Test Equipment
BPF           Band Pass Filter
BW            Band Width, Beam Width
BWER       Bounded Weak Echo Region

CAPE        Conditional Available Potential Energy
Cb             Cumulonimbus Cloud
CB             Citizen Band
CAPPI       Constan Altitude Plan Position Indicator
CIMO        Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observations
CL             Classic Supercell (storm)
CMAX       Column Maximum Product ( with Horizontal Max Projection )
CODAR     Coastal Observation Radar
COHO       Coherent Oscillator
COMET    Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training
COS          Cone Of Silence
CRPL        Central Radio Propagation Laboratory
CW            Continuous Wave

DAC          Digital to Analog Converter
dB             deciBel
dBA           dB Acoustic
dBi             dB isotropic, antenna gain unit
dBm          dbmW, dB milliwat
dBV          db voltage
dBZ           Radar Reflectivity
DCAPE     Downdraft Conditional Available Potential Energy
DCZ          Deep Convergence Zone
DGN         Digital Ground
DoC          Department of Commerce
DoD          Department of Defense
DoT          Department of Transportation
DSP          Digital Signal Processor

E               Electric Field
EBASE      Echo Base, Lowest Altitude Reflectivity
ECO         Engineering Change Order
EM            Electro Magnetic Wave
ETOP       Echo Tops Product
ERL          Environmental Research Laboratories
ETC          Extratropical Cyclone

FAA          Federal Aviation Administration
FAR          False Alarm Ratio
FM/CW     Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave
FO            Forward Overhang

GARP        Global Atmospheric Research Program
GATE        GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment
G/R           Gage/Radar

H               Magnetic Field
HF             Hight Frequency Radio Band
HMAX       Height of Maximum Z Product
HP             High Precipitation supercell (storm)
hPa            hecto pascal ( 1 hPa = 100 Pa = 1 mbar )
HPF           High Pass Filter

I                In Phase Signal Component ( analog )
ICAO        International Civil Aviation Organization
ICMSSR   Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
IEEE         Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IF              Intermediate Frequency
IR             Infrared (satellite data)
ISAR        Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar
ITU           International Telecommunication Union

JDOP         Joint Doppler Operational Project
JSPO         Joint System Program Office

LIDAR      Light Detection And Ranging
LEWP       Line Echo Wave Pattern
LNA          Low Noise Amplifier
LP             Low Precipitation Supercell (storm)
LPF           Low Pass Filter
LRA          Layer Reflectivity Average Product

M              Mesocyclone Product
MARC      Mid Altitude Radial Convergence
MCC         Mesoscale Convective Complex
MCS         Mesoscale Convective System
MCV         Mesoscale Convective Vortices ( lihat juga BAMEX )
MDS         Minimun Discernible Signal, Minimum Detectable Signal
MPDA      Multiple Pulse Repetition Frequency (PRF) Dealiasing Algorithm
MSCF       Master System Control Function
MTI          Moving Target Indication

NEXRAD   Next Generation Weather Radar
NF             Noise Figure
NOAA       National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPC          NEXRAD Program Council
NSSFC      National Severe Storms Forecast Center
NSSL         National Severe Storms Laboratory
NTIS          National Technical Information Service
NWS          National Weather Service

OFCM        Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research

PFN           Pulse Forming Network ( pulse shaper )
PPI             Plan Position Indicator
PPS            Pulse Per Second ( unit of PRF )
PRF           Pulse Repetition Frequency
PRT           Pulse Repetition Time

Q               Quadrature Signal Component ( analog )
QLCS        Quasi Linear Convective Systems

R                Rainfall Rate in Z-R relationship
RADAR      Radio Detection And Ranging
RASS         Radio Acoustic Sounding System
RDA           Radar Data Acquisition
RDF           Radio Direction Finding
RF              Radio Frequency
RFD           Rear Flank Downdraft
RIJ             Rear Inflow Jet
Rmax          Maximum Unambiguous Range
RPG           Radar Product Generator
ROC          Radar Operations Center
RPM          Revolutions Per Minute

SAR          Synthetic Aperture Radar
SC            Signal Power to Clutter Power Ratio
SIDPOL    Simultaneous Dual Polarization Doppler Radar
SL             Severe Left-Moving Supercell
SL             Squall Line
SNR          Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SODAR     Sonic Detection And Ranging
SONAR     Sonic Navigation And Ranging
SR             Severe Right-Moving Supercell
SRI           Surface Rainfall Intensity, equal to BASE Product
SRR          Storm Relative Mean Radial Velocity Region Product
STALO     Stabil Local Oscillator

TDWR      Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
TVS          Tornadic Vortex Signature (in velocity data) and in the WSR -88D Product

UHF          Ultra High Frequency Radio Band
UTC          Coordinated Universal Time
UWT         Uniform Wind Technique

V                Velocity data
V                Volts
VAD          Velocity Azimuth Display, VAD Wind Profile product.
VCP          Volume Coverage Pattern
VIL           Vertically Integrated Liquid Product, VIR
VIR           Vertically Integrated Reflectivity Product, VIL
VHF          Very High Frequency Radio Band
Vmax         Maximum Unambiguous Velocity
VSWR       Voltage Standing Wave Ratio
VVP          Velocity Volume Processing
VWP         Velocity Azimuth Display Wind Profile Product

W               Spectrum Width Data
WER          Weak Echo Region
WGNR       Working Group of Nowcasting Research
WGMWFR Working Group on Mesoscale Weather Forecasting Research
WMO         World Meteorological Organization
WSR-88D   Weather Surveillance Radar - 1988 Doppler

XSEC        Cross Section, Arbitrary Vertical Cross Section Product

Z                Radar Reflectivity Data
Ze              Equivalent Radar Reflectivity
ZDR           Differential Reflectivity Factor