• DocumentCode
    380071
  • Title

    Differential rain attenuation statistics on two converging terrestrial links

  • Author

    Panagopoulos, A.D. ; Kanellopoulos, J.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    730
  • Abstract
    In the present paper a method to predict the differential rain attenuation statistics on converging links is proposed. It is based on a model convective rain cell structure of the rainfall medium. The assumption that both the point rainfall statistics and the rain attenuation follow a lognormal form is also adopted. The results of this method are compared with a set of available experimental data for the differential rain attenuation over pairs of terrestrial links in Brazil.
  • Keywords
    electromagnetic wave absorption; electromagnetic wave scattering; microwave links; microwave propagation; rain; statistical analysis; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; Brazil; converging links; differential rain attenuation statistics; lognormal distribution; model convective rain cell structure; point rainfall statistics; rain attenuation; rainfall medium; terrestrial links; Attenuation; Frequency; Interference; Polarization; Rain; Statistics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2002. IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7330-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2002.1016749
  • Filename
    1016749