Annual and diurnal slant path rain attenuation statistics in Athens obtained with the synthetic storm technique

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2357-2364

  Kanellopoulos, Sotirios A ^a   Panagopoulos, Athanasios D ^a   Matricciani, Emilio ^b   Kanellopoulos, John D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Annual seasonal and diurnal statistics; Hellas Sat 2; Microwave propagation; Rain attenuation; Synthetic storm technique

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; RELIABILITY; STATISTICS; STORMS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE PROPAGATION; RAIN ATTENUATION; SYNTHETIC STORM TECHNIQUE;

RAIN;

EID: 33747613767     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.879209     Document Type: Article

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