Rainfall rate from meteorological radar data for microwave applications in Malaysia

Author

Khamis, Nor Hisham Haji ; Din, Jafri ; Rahman, T.A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2005

Abstract

This paper present the rainfall rate obtained from the analysis of a meteorological radar data in Malaysia. Rainfall rate is an important parameter for a microwave link because it enables the attenuation due to rain to be determined. An important parameter in rain attenuation studies is the rain rate for 0.01% of the time or R_0.01. Design and system engineers use this value to construct communications system such that the link is available for 99.99% of the time. This result is obtained by utilizing the radar data from the Malaysian Meteorological Department. Knowing the rainfall rate, rain attenuation can be calculated. This information is useful for microwave link applications.

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; meteorological radar; microwave links; rain; remote sensing by radar; Malaysia; Malaysian Meteorological Department; meteorological radar data; microwave applications; microwave link; rain attenuation; rainfall rate; Attenuation; Meteorological radar; Meteorology; Microwave communication; Microwave devices; Radar measurements; Rain; Reflectivity; Space technology; Turing machines; microwave; radar data; rainfall rate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2005. Jointly held with the 2005 IEEE 7th Malaysia International Conference on Communication., 2005 13th IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1531-2216

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0000-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2005.1635660

Filename

1635660