Prediction model for the diurnal behavior of the tropospheric scintillation variance

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1372-1378

  Tervonen, Jouni K ^a   Van De Kamp, Max M J L ^a   Salonen, Erkki T ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cumulus clouds; Low fade margin; Meteorology; Propagation; Radio wave propagation; Satellite communication; Tropospheric turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SCINTILLATION; TROPOSPHERE;

TROPOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 0032164162     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.719982     Document Type: Article

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