Modeling of rain drop-size distribution for Indian region

ICMTCE2011 - Proceedings 2011 IEEE International Conference on Microwave Technology and Computational Electromagnetics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 350-353

  Vidyarthi, Anurag ^a   Jassal, B S ^a   Gowri, R ^a  

^a GRAPHIC ERA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Empirical model; Rain DSD; Rain induced attenuation

Indexed keywords

DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FIT PARAMETERS; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RAIN DROP SIZE; RAIN DSD;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; DROPS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

EID: 79960352705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMTCE.2011.5915530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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