Predicting the long-term average of the effective earth radius factor for South Africa using ground-based observations

Author

Palmer, Andrew J. ; Baker, Duncan C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Pretoria Univ., South Africa

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

15-17 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

1003

Abstract

The work reported in This work further extends work presented in a companion paper and uses ground based meteorological observations to predict the long-term annual average value of the k-factor. These results are compared with those obtained from the radiosonde data used in the companion paper. The results are in broad agreement with those obtained from radiosonde observations. However, it is found that there are discrepancies in the comparison for Alexander Bay data. This may be due to the influence of the cold Benguela current.

Keywords

Earth; radiocommunication; radiowave propagation; refractive index; telecommunication network planning; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; Alexander Bay data; South Africa; annual average value; cold Benguela current; earth radius factor; ground-based observations; k-factor; long-term prediction; meteorological observation; radiosonde data; terrestrial radiowave propagation; tropospheric refractive index; Africa; Atmosphere; Digital communication; Earth; Large Hadron Collider; Meteorology; Multiaccess communication; Predictive models; Radiowave propagation; Refractive index;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AFRICON, 2004. 7th AFRICON Conference in Africa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8605-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRICON.2004.1406840

Filename

1406840