An empirical formula for the prediction of rain attenuation in frequency range 0.6-100 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 545-551

  Lin, Der Phone ^b   Chen, Hsing Yi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extinction cross section; Polarization; Rain attenuation

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

RAIN ATTENUATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 0036543472     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2002.1003391     Document Type: Article

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