Rain attenuation modeling in the 10-100 GHz frequency using drop size distributions for different climatic zones in tropical India

Progress In Electromagnetics Research B

Volumn , Issue 25, 2010, Pages 211-224

  Das, S ^a   Maitra, A ^a   Shukla, A K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

100 GHZ; ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DIFFERENT CLIMATIC ZONES; DISDROMETERS; DROP SIZE; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; EHF BANDS; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGH FREQUENCY; ITU-R MODEL; LOG-NORMAL; RAIN ATTENUATION; RAIN DROP SIZE; RAIN DROPS; RAIN RATES; SINGLE SCATTERING; TROPICAL REGIONS;

DROPS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS;

RAIN;

EID: 78650341850     PISSN: 19376472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIERB10072707     Document Type: Article

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