Atmospheric refractivity profiles and microwave propagation on a terrestrial path - Experiment and simulation

Author

Grabner, Martin ; Kvicera, Vaclav ; Pechac, Pavel ; Valtr, Pavel ; Jicha, O.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Freq. Eng., Czech Metrol. Inst., Prague, Czech Republic

fYear

2013

fDate

17-18 April 2013

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

15

Abstract

The results of experimental measurement of atmospheric refractivity profiles and microwave propagation characteristics at 11 GHz carried out recently at the Podebrady site in the Czech Republic are presented. Long term statistics of atmospheric refractivity were obtained from the tower measurement of temperature, pressure and relative humidity of air. Microwave propagation during clear air conditions was observed concurrently on the 50 km long terrestrial path Prague-Podebrady with several receivers located in different heights above the ground. Propagation of electromagnetic waves was modeled using the parabolic equation method and compared with measured data.

Keywords

air; atmospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; atmospheric humidity; atmospheric pressure; atmospheric temperature; humidity measurement; microwave measurement; microwave propagation; parabolic equations; radio receivers; refractive index measurement; statistical analysis; temperature measurement; Czech Republic; Podebrady site; air conditions; atmospheric refractivity profile measurement; electromagnetic wave propagation; frequency 11 GHz; microwave propagation; parabolic equation method; pressure measurement; receiver; relative humidity measurement; statistics; terrestrial path; tower temperature measurement; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Mathematical model; Microwave measurement; Microwave propagation; Refractive index; Sea measurements; atmospheric refractivity; microwave propagation; parabolic equation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Techniques (COMITE), 2013l Conference on

Conference_Location

Pardubice

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5512-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMITE.2013.6545035

Filename

6545035