The Relationship of Raindrop-Size Distribution to Attenuations Experienced at 50, 80, 140, and 240 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1987, Pages 1326-1330

  Manabe, Takeshi ^a   Ihara, Toshio ^a   Awaka, Jun ^a   Furuhama, Yoji ^b  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS - MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN AND RAINFALL;

RAIN ATTENUATION PREDICTION; RAINDROP-SIZE DISTRIBUTION RELATIONSHIP;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 0023670290     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1987.1144005     Document Type: Article

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