In this paper study of rainfall has been carried out over Salem, a place in Southern India. Rainfall rate values have been recorded using a fast response rain gauge installed at Sona College of Technology. The derived rainfall rates have been used to estimate attenuation in the 10–100 GHz frequency range. Using the estimated co‐polar attenuation cross polar discriminations (XPD) have been computed using ITU‐R(2002) model in the 10–35 GHz range. The study shows that attenuation and cross polarization vary with frequency, elevation angle and rainfall rate. The study also depicts the cumulative distribution of rainfall rate, attenuation and XPD.
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© 2007 American Institute of Physics.
2007
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