Title :
Rain attenuation model for south east asia countries
Author :
Singh, M.S.J. ; Hassan, S.I.S. ; Ain, M.F. ; Ghani, F. ; Igarashi, K. ; Tanaka, K. ; Iida, M.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang
Abstract :
A model for predicting rain attenuation on Earth-to-space is developed by using the measured data obtained from tropical and equatorial regions that was revised from the ITU model. The proposed rain attenuation model uses the complete rainfall rate cumulative distribution as input data. It is shown that significant improvements in terms of prediction error over existing attenuation models are obtained
Keywords :
microwave propagation; radiowave propagation; rain; satellite links; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; Earth-to-space paths; ITU model; South East Asia; equatorial regions; rain attenuation prediction; satellite communication services; tropical regions;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20072677