Predicting the monthly cumulative distribution of the effective earth radius factor for South Africa

Author

Palmer, Andrew I. ; 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

1007

Abstract

In previous work a model was developed to predict the annual average cumulative distribution of the effective earth radius factor, the k-factor, for telecommunications applications in South Africa. Long term meteorological radiosonde data from eight stations were used for this purpose. In this paper, the model is used to predict the cumulative effective earth radius, or k-factor, distribution for different months as a function of height. Comparisons between observed and predicted results are presented.

Keywords

Earth; radiosondes; radiowave propagation; refractive index; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; South Africa; annual average cumulative distribution; earth radius factor; k-factor; meteorological radiosonde data; monthly cumulative distribution; telecommunications application; terrestrial propagation model; terrestrial radio wave propagation; tropospheric refractive index; Africa; Analysis of variance; Atmosphere; Atmospheric modeling; Earth; Meteorology; Performance analysis; Predictive models; Refractive index; Valves;

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.2004.1406841

Filename

1406841