TY - GEN
T1 - Multimodality in the rainfall drop size distributions for southern England
AU - Ekerete, K'ufre-mfon E.
AU - Hunt, Francis
AU - Otung, Ifiok
AU - Jeffery, Judith L.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Probabilistic forecasting
KW - Theoretical modelling
KW - Space and satellite communications
KW - Estimation and forecasting
KW - Probability distributions
KW - Rainfall drop size distribution (DSD)
KW - Multimodality
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-25479-1_13
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-319-25479-1
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
SP - 177
EP - 184
BT - Wireless and Satellite Systems
PB - Springer
T2 - 7th International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Services
Y2 - 6 July 2015 through 7 July 2015
ER -