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Research Publications in journals:
Atmospheric Propagation at 100 and 300 GHz: Assessment of a Method to Identify Rainy Conditions during Radiosoundings
Year:2012
Research Areas
  • Engineering
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Abstract
In the present study, a method to identify the presence of rainy conditions during radiosounsings is introduced, with the aim of filtering out these events from yearly statistics of predicted atmospheric attenuation. The detection procedure is based on the analysis of a set of parameters, some of them extracted from synoptical observations of weather (SYNOP reports) and other derived from radiosonde observations (RAOBs). The performance of the method has been evaluated under diferent climatic conditions, corresponding to three locations in Spain, where colocated rain gauge data were available. Rain events detected by the method have been compared with those precipitations identified by the rain gauge. The pertinence of the method is discussed on the basis of an analysis of cumulative distributions of total attenuation at 100 and 300 GHz. This study demonstrates that the proposed method can be useful to identify events probably associated to rainy conditions. Hence, it can be considered as a suitable algorithm in order to filter out this kind of events from annual attenuation statistics.
International
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JCR
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Title
Progress in Electromagnetics Research-Pier
ISBN
1559-8985
Impact factor JCR
3,745
Impact info
Datos JCR del año 2010
Volume
130
Journal number
From page
257
To page
279
Month
SIN MES
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Tecnología de la Información y las Comunicaciones (GTIC)
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Audiovisual y Comunicaciones
  • Departamento: Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones