Worst-month statistics
Abstract
An exponential model of monthly exceedances (Crane and Debrunner, 1978; Brussard and Watson, 1978) is used to estimate average worst-month time percentages from sets of 36 monthly cumulative distributions of rain rate and from 48 cumulative distributions of 11.6 GHz slant-path attenuation. Data from OTS beacon measurements carried out at the Deutsche Bundespost experimental ground station, Leeheim, were used. The results indicate that, even in the case of a very limited sample size (such as the one considered), it may be more beneficial to estimate average worst-month statistics on the basis of the exponential model of monthly exceedances rather than from a large number of single-year worst-month statistics.
- Publication:
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Electronics Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1049/el:19840604
- Bibcode:
- 1984ElL....20..890D
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Attenuation;
- Microwave Attenuation;
- Microwave Transmission;
- Rain;
- Statistical Analysis;
- Optical Tracking;
- Radio Beacons;
- Statistical Distributions;
- Communications and Radar