Rain rate statistical conversion for the prediction of rain attenuation in Malaysia

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1019-1021

  Chebil, J ^a   Rahman, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RAIN ATTENUATION;

RAIN;

EID: 0032634856     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19990685     Document Type: Article

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