NDLI: Prediction of Line-of-Sight Microwave Signal Fading Through Meteorological Parameters

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Author	Duttagupta, S.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Inst. of Radio Phys. & Electron., Kolkata (Duttagupta, S.)
Abstract	The variability of troposphere in certain cases pose serious problems in achieving microwave communication and there are situations when the line-of-sight (LOS) link may deviate from its expected path of propagation. LOS microwave links though found to be reliable and widely used, but the tropospheric medium through which the signal propagates is found to create problems in such links. Bending of LOS path from its desired trajectory along with deviation in angle-of-arrival of the signal causes much degradation in the energy levels of the signal in well-designed links. In this paper effort has been made to predict fade depth of a microwave signal of frequency less than 10 GHz. through a model associating with the radio refractive index gradient (RRI grad), which is a function of temperature, pressure and humidity. The RRI is calculated at the surface, at 100 m. height and 500 height levels. In cases where RRI increases or decreases uniformly then the slope is defined by a single parameter 'N1'. But for a non-uniform atmosphere, another parameter 'N2' is introduced. Here 'N1' is the RRI grad between the surface and 100 m. height and 'N2' is the gradient for the upper atmosphere. Model is then developed correlating different situations of the atmosphere (whether N1 or N2 is in normal, sub-refractive or super-refractive state) with the fade depth of a 7 Ghz. 42 km. line-of-sight microwave link.
Starting Page	97
Ending Page	100
File Size	746497
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424415564
DOI	10.1109/KJMW.2007.4402249
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-11-15
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Fading Degradation Rail to rail inputs RF signals Terrestrial atmosphere Microwave communication Frequency Energy states Meteorology Microwave propagation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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