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A prediction method for the received power from rain scattering
Author(s) -
Awaka Jun
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/rs019i002p00643
Subject(s) - attenuation , rain rate , log normal distribution , scattering , environmental science , meteorology , power (physics) , term (time) , atmospheric sciences , statistics , remote sensing , mathematics , physics , geology , optics , quantum mechanics
This paper presents a prediction method for the received power from rain scattering which is based on the assumption that the rainfall rate and the rain attenuation are described by lognormal distributions. Predicted values agree quite well with the long‐term experimental values at 14.3 GHz.