• DocumentCode
    2240771
  • Title

    Calculation of attenuations and phase shifts due to melting layer

  • Author

    Zang, W. ; Salonen, F. ; Karhu, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Finland
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    15-18 Apr 1991
  • Firstpage
    836
  • Abstract
    The specific attenuation and specific phase shift in the melting layer, the average specific attenuation and average specific phase shift of the melting layer, and the related zenith excess of attenuation, phase shift, differential attenuation and differential phase shift are calculated over a frequency range of 1-100 GHz for rain rates below 12.5 mm/h. The numerical results have been computed for oblate spheroidal melting particles and five drop size distributions. These new results can be used in the design of earth-space communications systems
  • Keywords
    electromagnetic wave absorption; electromagnetic wave scattering; ice; radiowave propagation; rain; snow; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 1 to 100 GHz; EHF; SHF; UHF; differential attenuation; differential phase shift; drop size distributions; earth-space communications systems; ice; melting layer; microwave band; oblate spheroidal melting particles; radiowave propagation; rain rates; snow; specific attenuation; specific phase shift; zenith excess attenuation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation, 1991. ICAP 91., Seventh International Conference on (IEE)
  • Conference_Location
    York
  • Print_ISBN
    0-85296-508-7
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    98368