Cloud-induced effects on monthly averaged scintillation amplitude along millimeter-wave slant paths

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 880-887

  Marzano, Frank Silvio ^a   Riva, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cloud radiative modeling; Long term scintillation prediction; Microwave radiometry; Satellite microwave and millimeter wave links; Tropospheric amplitude scintillation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD RADIATIVE MODELING;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 0038721658     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.811095     Document Type: Article

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