Development of 1 min rain rate contour maps for microwave applications in Malaysian Peninsula

Chebil, Jalel; Rahman, Tharek Abd

doi:10.1049/el:19991188

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“…The climatic mapping of rain-rate and rain-attenuation has naturally attracted a great deal of attention -for instance this kind of work has earlier been carried out for USA [12], Europe [12, 14, Gunes et al, 1994], Malaysia [3], Colombia [13] and on global scale by ITU-R [10], Salonen and Baptisa [16], Crane, 1996. Efforts has also been made by Ajayi and Ofoche [2] to obtain 1 minute rain rate map for Nigeria using Rice-Holmberg model however the model overestimates rain rates in the high-availability range (0.01%), and underestimates in the range between 0.1% to 1% [26].…”

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Rain Rate and Rain Attenuation Prediction for Satellite Communication in Ku and Ka Bands Over Nigeria.

Ojo¹,

Ajewole²,

Sarkar³

2008

PIER B

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Abstract-Rain rate and rain attenuation predictions are one of the vital steps to be considered when analyzing a microwave satellite communication links at the Ku and Ka bands. In this paper, tools for the prediction of rain rate and rain attenuation are presented in the form of contour maps for Nigeria using a massive rainfall data bank of 30 years which are taken from measurements made from the coast to the arid region of Nigeria. Rain-rate maps for the country of Nigeria were developed using the models purposely designed for tropical zones while ITU-R models were used for the rain-attenuation maps. The information from these maps will be a good preliminary design tools for both terrestrial and earth-satellite microwave links and also provide a broad idea of rain attenuation for microwave engineers.

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Rain Rate and Rain Attenuation Prediction for Satellite Communication in Ku and Ka Bands Over Nigeria.

Ojo¹,

Ajewole²,

Sarkar³

2008

PIER B

124

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“…The models using only annual amount of rainfall was analyzed in (Tamošiūnas et al, 2005). Considering the peculiarities of Lithuania's climate, the change in (Chebil et al, 1999) model was made. This new model for the electromagnetic wave attenuation due to rain medium in atmosphere for the first time has been presented in (Tamošiūnas et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%