Characterization of bright-band in a tropical station for satellite communications

• Main Author: Olanrewaju, Yussuff Abayomi Isiaka
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78638/1/YussuffAbayomiIsiakaPFKE2014.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78638/; http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:98130
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Tropical regions experience signal degradations due to hydrometeors in addition to paucity of database for slant path rain propagation estimations. The melting layer is the region where rain starts to occur; lying just below the 0oC isotherm height. Frozen hydrometeors exhibit peculiar characteristi...