Title :
Analysis of 15-months rain rate measurements at NTUA campus
Author :
Kourogiorgas, Charilaos I. ; Panagopoulos, Athanasios D. ; Moraitis, Nektarios ; Kanellopoulos, John D. ; Livieratos, Spiros N. ; Chatzarakis, George E.
Author_Institution :
Mobile Radiocommun. Lab., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
15-months of rain rate measured at two sites inside the NTUA campus in Greece are analyzed in this paper. The 1-min averaged rain rate time series are calculated through the processing of the tipping bucket measurements. Firstly, the 1st order statistics of rain rate are calculated. The experimental long-term Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function (CCDF) is given for both sites and the joint CCDF is also calculated. Various distributions are used to model the CCDF of rain rate and they are evaluated. Also, the CCDF of rain attenuation for hypothetical links is computed using the experimental statistics of rain rate. Furthermore, 2nd order statistics of the rain rate time series are evaluated. Finally, the dynamic parameter of the Maseng-Bakken model as applied to rain rate stochastic processes is calculated and compared to the values derived from other propagation experiments in the literature.
Keywords :
attenuation measurement; meteorological instruments; rain; statistics; stochastic processes; time measurement; time series; 1st order statistics; 2nd order statistics; Greece; Maseng-Bakken dynamic parameter model; NTUA campus; averaged rain rate time series calculation; averaged rain rate time series measurement; experimental long-term CCDF; experimental long-term complementary cumulative distribution function; hypothetical links attenuation; propagation experiment; rain gauge; rain rate experimental statistics; rain rate stochastic processing; time 1 min; time 15 month; tipping bucket measurement; Attenuation; Computational modeling; Correlation; Joints; Rain; Time measurement; Time series analysis; first order statistics; joint statistics; rain attenuation; rainfall rate; second order statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0918-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0919-7
DOI :
10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206010