Normalization Procedures and Prediction Techniques for Rain Attenuation on Terrestrial and Earth-Space Radio Links

摘要

A normalization procedure which makes use of the increasing amount of data on rainfall intensity and rain attenuation for terrestrial and Earth-space links is proposed. A simple technique for predicting rain attenuation statistics is described. The technique requires the knowledge of a single meteorological parameter (point rainfall intensity exceeded for 0.01% of an average year) which identifies geographical areas of interest. More work is required to refine the normalization procedure and to validate the general applicability of the prediction technique both to terrestrial and Earth-space links.