Comparison between empirical lognormal and gamma rain drop-size distribution models for Indian region

Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1686-1689

  Vidyarthi, Anurag ^a   Jassal, B S ^a   Gowri, R ^a   Shukla, A K ^b  

^a GRAPHIC ERA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Drop size distribution; Empirical rain model; Microwave propagation; Rain induced attenuation

Indexed keywords

DISDROMETER DATA; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; EMPIRICAL MODEL; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MICROWAVE PROPAGATION; RAIN DROP SIZE; RAIN RATES; SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

DROPS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

EID: 84860504657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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