Rain attenuation of millimeter waves at 5.77, 3.3, and 2 mm wavelengths
Abstract
Measurements of rainfall attenuation of millimeter waves at 5.77, 3.3, and 2 mm wavelengths were conducted during the years 1969-1970. Simultaneously recorded meteorological quantities were the rainfall rate and a part of the drop-size spectrum. Attenuation coefficients as a function of rainfall rate were thus determined. These attenuation coefficients were related to parameters that, under certain assumptions, describe the drop-size distribution in rain.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Pub Date:
- March 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1109/TAP.1975.1141059
- Bibcode:
- 1975ITAP...23..213S
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Attenuation;
- Attenuation Coefficients;
- Drop Size;
- Microwave Attenuation;
- Millimeter Waves;
- Raindrops;
- Data Recording;
- Electromagnetic Measurement;
- Extremely High Frequencies;
- Meteorological Parameters;
- Particle Size Distribution;
- Variance (Statistics);
- Communications and Radar