Diurnal variation of rain attenuation obtained from measurement of raindrop size distribution in equatorial Indonesia

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 4 PART 2, 2009, Pages 1191-1196

  Marzuki, M ^a,b   Kozu, T ^c   Shimomai, T ^c   Randeu, W L ^b   Hashiguchi, H ^d   Shibagaki, Y ^e  

^a ANDALAS UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kototabang (KT); Rain attenuation; Raindrop size distribution (DSD)

Indexed keywords

100 GHZ; CUMULATIVE RAINFALLS; DISDROMETER MEASUREMENTS; DIURNAL VARIATIONS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GROUND-BASED; INDONESIA; ITU-R MODELS; KOTOTABANG (KT); RAIN ATTENUATION; RAIN EVENTS; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN RATES; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION (DSD); RAINDROP SPECTRUM; SPECIFIC RAIN ATTENUATIONS;

DROPS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

EID: 65549161934     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2015812     Document Type: Article

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