Trends in the incidence of rain rates associated with outages on fixed links operating above 10 GHz in the southern United Kingdom

Radio Science

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Paulson, Kevin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGLAND; HEAVY RAINS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; INTEGRATION TIME; RAIN FADES; RAIN RATES; TIPPING BUCKET GAUGE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MICROWAVE LINKS; OUTAGES; SECURITY OF DATA;

RAIN;

EID: 77649112698     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009RS004193     Document Type: Article

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