Multimodality in the rainfall drop size distributions for southern England

K'ufre-mfon E. Ekerete; Francis Hunt; Ifiok Otung; Judith L. Jeffery

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_13

Multimodality in the rainfall drop size distributions for southern England

K'ufre-mfon E. Ekerete, Francis Hunt, Ifiok Otung, Judith L. Jeffery

Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science

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Abstract

Mutimodality appears in the modelling of rainfall drop size distributions (DSDs), and the understanding of the distribution in general is important as it helps in the predicting and mitigation of attenuation due to rain of satellite signals in frequencies above 10 GHz. This work looks at the occurrence of multimodality in the rainfall DSDs in southern England, with data captured at the Chilbolton Observatory for a seven year period (2003 to 2009). The investigation looks at the variation in the number of modes against different rain rates and seasons. It shows that multimodality is a relatively common occurrence, and hence there is a need to model this phenomenon when attempting to predict rain attenuation of satellite signals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Wireless and Satellite Systems
Subtitle of host publication	7th International Conference, WiSATS 2015, Bradford, UK, July 6-7, 2015. Revised Selected Papers
Publisher	Springer
Pages	177-184
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-25478-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-25479-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_13
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	7th International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Services - Bradford, United Kingdom Duration: 6 Jul 2015 → 7 Jul 2015

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Publisher	Springer
Volume	154
ISSN (Print)	1867-8211

Conference

Conference	7th International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Services
Abbreviated title	WiSATS 2015
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Bradford
Period	6/07/15 → 7/07/15

Keywords

Probabilistic forecasting
Theoretical modelling
Space and satellite communications
Estimation and forecasting
Probability distributions
Rainfall drop size distribution (DSD)
Multimodality

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Ekerete, K. E., Hunt, F., Otung, I., & Jeffery, J. L. (2016). Multimodality in the rainfall drop size distributions for southern England. In Wireless and Satellite Systems : 7th International Conference, WiSATS 2015, Bradford, UK, July 6-7, 2015. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 177-184). (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 154). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_13

Ekerete, K'ufre-mfon E. ; Hunt, Francis ; Otung, Ifiok et al. / Multimodality in the rainfall drop size distributions for southern England. Wireless and Satellite Systems : 7th International Conference, WiSATS 2015, Bradford, UK, July 6-7, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, 2016. pp. 177-184 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).

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Ekerete, KE, Hunt, F, Otung, I & Jeffery, JL 2016, Multimodality in the rainfall drop size distributions for southern England. in Wireless and Satellite Systems : 7th International Conference, WiSATS 2015, Bradford, UK, July 6-7, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 154, Springer, pp. 177-184, 7th International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Services, Bradford, United Kingdom, 6/07/15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_13

Multimodality in the rainfall drop size distributions for southern England. / Ekerete, K'ufre-mfon E.; Hunt, Francis; Otung, Ifiok et al.

Wireless and Satellite Systems : 7th International Conference, WiSATS 2015, Bradford, UK, July 6-7, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, 2016. p. 177-184 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 154).

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Ekerete KE, Hunt F, Otung I, Jeffery JL. Multimodality in the rainfall drop size distributions for southern England. In Wireless and Satellite Systems : 7th International Conference, WiSATS 2015, Bradford, UK, July 6-7, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. Springer. 2016. p. 177-184. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_13

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