A New Prediction Method for Tropospheric Scintillation on Earth-Space Paths

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1988, Pages 1608-1614

  Karasawa, Yoshio ^a   Yamada, Matsuichi ^a   Allnutt, Jeremy E ^a  

^a KDDI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS, MICROWAVE;

EARTH-SPACE PATHS; MICROWAVE PROPAGATION EXPERIMENT; RADIO PROPAGATION METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; SCINTILLATION FADING PREDICTION; TROPOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0024103959     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.9712     Document Type: Article

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