Prediction of tropospheric scintillation on satellite links from radiosonde data

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 293-301

  Vasseur, Hugues ^a  

^a UCL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RADIOSONDES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE LINKS; SCINTILLATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPOSPHERE;

TROPOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION; TROPOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 0032625099     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.761069     Document Type: Article

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