Title :
Rain Attenuation in Terrestrial and Satellite Communications Links
Author :
Sekine, Matsuo ; Chii-Dong, Chen
Author_Institution :
Deperant of Applied Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohamma, 227 Japan.
Abstract :
Specific attenuation values from 1 to 1000 GHz are calculated by using the negative exponential, Best and Weibull raindrop-size distributions. It is shown that the Weibull distribution is a useful tool for rain attenuation calculations of centimeter, mitlimeter and submillimeter radio waves. The empirical relation A=aRb between the specific attenuation A and the rainfall rate R is also tabulated for these three distributions.
Keywords :
Attenuation measurement; Frequency; Polarization; Rain; Satellite communication; Scattering; Size measurement; Submillimeter wave communication; Volume measurement; Weibull distribution;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference, 1985. 15th European
Conference_Location :
Paris, France
DOI :
10.1109/EUMA.1985.333606
