Title :
Variation of tropospheric slant-path attenuation in the UK at 11.75 and 17 GHz
Author_Institution :
Post Office Research Department, Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
Measurements of sky-noise temperature at elevations of 5° and 20° and at frequencies of 11.75 and 17 GHz, supplementing those of an earlier series, have been used to derive cumulative distributions of slant-path attenuation. A relationship between the distributions is suggested.
Keywords :
atmospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; electromagnetic wave absorption; noise measurement; radiowave propagation; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 11.75 to 17 GHZ; electromagnetic wave attenuation; microwave propagation; noise measurement; sky noise temperature; tropospheric propagation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19720327
