Title :
Statistical Distribution of Integrated Liquid Water and Water Vapor Content From Meteorological Reanalysis
Author :
Jeannin, Nicolas ; Feral, Laurent ; Sauvageot, Henri ; Castanet, Laurent
Author_Institution :
Dept. Electromagn. et Radar, ONERA, Toulouse
Abstract :
A worldwide modelling of integrated liquid water and water vapor content distributions is proposed and evaluated. The knowledge of those distributions is valuable to predict attenuation for Earth-space communication systems operating at frequencies higher than 10 GHz.
Keywords :
atmospheric humidity; electromagnetic wave absorption; radiowave propagation; satellite links; statistical distributions; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; Earth-space communication system attenuation; integrated liquid water distribution; meteorological reanalysis; statistical distribution; water vapor content distribution; Attenuation; Clouds; Databases; Frequency; Meteorology; Rain; Satellite communication; Spaceborne radar; Statistical distributions; Weather forecasting; Cloud; Weilbull distribution; high frequencies propagation; liquid water; lognormal distribution; tropospheric attenuation; water vapor;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAP.2008.929509
