• DocumentCode
    1994479
  • Title

    Rain Attenuation in Terrestrial and Satellite Communications Links

  • Author

    Sekine, Matsuo ; Chii-Dong, Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Deperant of Applied Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohamma, 227 Japan.
  • fYear
    1985
  • fDate
    9-13 Sept. 1985
  • Firstpage
    985
  • Lastpage
    990
  • Abstract
    Specific attenuation values from 1 to 1000 GHz are calculated by using the negative exponential, Best and Weibull raindrop-size distributions. It is shown that the Weibull distribution is a useful tool for rain attenuation calculations of centimeter, mitlimeter and submillimeter radio waves. The empirical relation A=aRb between the specific attenuation A and the rainfall rate R is also tabulated for these three distributions.
  • Keywords
    Attenuation measurement; Frequency; Polarization; Rain; Satellite communication; Scattering; Size measurement; Submillimeter wave communication; Volume measurement; Weibull distribution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 1985. 15th European
  • Conference_Location
    Paris, France
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.1985.333606
  • Filename
    4132294