Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan

• Main Authors: Elfatih, Elsheikh, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Chebil, Jalel, Bashir, Saad Osman, Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/35287/1/Binder1.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/35287/; http://www.iium.edu.my/icom2013/13/
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Dust storms are meteorological phenomena which occur for a percentage of time in arid and semi arid areas especially at African Sahara and Middle East. Measurements at existing microwave links have showed dust storms can potentially result in serious attenuation in signal level especially at Ku band...