Title :
Rain Height Variability in the Tropics and Implications for Rain Scatter Interference
Author :
Thurai, M. ; Salonen, E. ; Okamoto, K.
Author_Institution :
Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
Abstract :
Annual variations of freezing heights are derived using two sources of data over tropical and subtropical regions. The variations show latitude dependence and are compared with the standard distribution used for rain scatter interference prediction procedure. Interference calculations performed using the new set of distributions show some differences at 0.01% exceedance time
Keywords :
radio links; radiofrequency interference; rain; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; freezing height; rain height variability; rain scatter interference; Ice; Interference; Laboratories; Particle scattering; Radar scattering; Rain; Reflectivity; Satellite ground stations; Snow; Spaceborne radar; bright band height distributions; freezing heights; rain scatter interference;
Conference_Titel :
Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2005 Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9283-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICICS.2005.1689201
