Title :
Long term rain attenuation statistics from short term experiments
Author :
Matricciani, Emilio
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Elettron. e Inf., Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy
Abstract :
Based on a large data bank of rain rate time series, we have simulated a large data bank of rain attenuation time series at 18.7 GHz in slant paths to Italsat (13.2° E), circular polarisation, with the Synthetic Storm Technique (SST). The paper shows that 4 years of data can predict long term (~ 10 years) rain attenuation probability distributions with an average error practically zero, and an RMS in the range 2 ~ 6% in the probability range 0.0001–0.01.
Keywords :
Attenuation measurement; Error analysis; Frequency; Polarization; Probability distribution; Rain; Root mean square; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Storms;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona, Spain
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6431-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-84-7653-472-4
