Beam: A fast versatile model for atmospheric absorption coefficients from 0-1000 GHz

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3503, Issue , 1998, Pages 301-312

  Feist, D G ^a   Kampfer N ^a  

^a Institute of Applied Physics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric absorption; Fast line by line calculations; Microwave propagation modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MICROWAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION;

EID: 0038409915     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.319494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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