Microwave Attenuation by Realistically Distorted Raindrops: Part I-Theory

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 811-822

  Li, Le Wei ^a   Kooi, Pang Shyan ^a   Leong, Mook Sene ^a   Yeo, Tat Soon ^a   Gao, Min Zhan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RAIN; VECTORS;

DISTORTED RAINDROPS; FIRST ORDER PERTURBATION EXPANSION TECHNIQUE; MICROWAVE ATTENUATION; NONAXISYMMETRIC RAINDROP SCATTERERS; SPHERICAL VECTOR WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 0029358503     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.402200     Document Type: Article

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