Statistical distribution of integrated liquid water and water vapor content from meteorological reanalysis

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3350-3355

  Jeannin, Nicolas ^a   Feral, Laurent ^b   Sauvageot, Henri ^c   Castanet, Laurent ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Cloud; High frequencies propagation; Liquid water; Lognormal distribution; Tropospheric attenuation; Water vapor; Weilbull distribution

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; VAPORS; WATER CONTENT;

HIGH FREQUENCIES PROPAGATION; LIQUID WATER; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERIC ATTENUATION; WEILBULL DISTRIBUTION;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 54249125491     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.929509     Document Type: Article

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