A new prediction model of rain attenuation that separately accounts for stratiform and convective rain

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 196-204

  Capsoni, Carlo ^a   Luini, Lorenzo ^a   Paraboni, Aldo ^a   Riva, Carlo ^a   Martellucci, Antonio ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Radio propagation; Rainfall effect

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

ATTENUATION; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATIONS; CONVECTIVE RAINS; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EMBEDDED ALGORITHMS; EXCESS ATTENUATIONS; INPUT PARAMETERS; MELTING LAYERS; PREDICTION MODELS; RADIO PROPAGATION; RAIN ATTENUATIONS; RAIN CELLS; RAIN HEIGHTS; RAINFALL EFFECT; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATIONS;

RAIN;

EID: 63149169058     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2009698     Document Type: Article

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