Cloud Attenuation at Millimeter Wavelengths

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1989, Pages 1473-1479

  Altshuler, Edward E ^a   Marr, Richard A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGY--CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION; BOSTON AREA; CLOUD ATTENUATION; CLOUD COVER; SLANT PATH DISTANCE; ZENITH ATTENUATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0024765021     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.43567     Document Type: Article

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