ALTERNATIVE FORMULATION FOR DETERMINATION OFGEOCLIMATIC FACT OR USING LOCAL RADIOSONDE DATA FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA

摘要

The importance of geoclimatic factor as a key radioclimatic parameter in radio propagation studies can not be overemphasized. This is the reason why, the radio communication section of the international telecommunication union (ITU-R) gives a standard procedure for its determination in one of its recommendation. Usually, the ITU-R procedure has always been used by various authors to determine the geoclimatic factor for radioclimatic study using the available local radio propagation data. The ITU-R procedure is in most cases very suitable for statistical adaptation. In cases where an analytical or numerical procedure is to be employed to solve radio climatic problem, the standard ITU-R procedure may not be very suitable, hence the need arises to come up with an acceptable formulation to determine geoclimatic factor in such a situation. This is the purpose of this paper.