X-band tropospheric transhorizon propagation under differing meteorological conditions

Author

Spillard, C. ; Rooryck, M. ; Juy, M. ; Vilar, E.

Author_Institution

Portsmouth Polytech., UK

fYear

1989

fDate

4-7 Apr 1989

Firstpage

451

Abstract

As part of a European project to assess the level of cochannel interference due to microwave propagation beyond line-of-sight, Portsmouth Polytechnic, supported by the Centre National d´Etudes des Telecommunications (CNET) and the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratories (RAL) have set up a network of X-band transhorizon links across the English Channel. The paper presents a method of modelling the received median level due to turbulent scatter under different meteorological conditions, and the predictions based on that method are compared with observations made from the short link number 2 between Portsmouth, UK and Cap d´Antifer, France, which has a path length of 155 km. The anomalous propagation conditions are investigated and correlated with the different meteorological conditions observed

Keywords

atmospheric turbulence; electromagnetic wave scattering; meteorology; microwave links; radiowave propagation; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 155 km; CNET; Centre National d´Etudes des Telecommunications; English Channel; France; Portsmouth Polytechnic; RAL; Rutherford-Appleton Laboratories; X-band tropospheric transhorizon propagation; anomalous propagation; cochannel interference; meteorological conditions; microwave propagation; modelling; radiowave propagation; turbulent scatter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 1989. ICAP 89., Sixth International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.301)

Conference_Location

Coventry

Type

conf

Filename

29873