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In Search of a Location-Centric Rain Attenuation Model

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In search of an accurate location-centric rain-induced attenuation model, in this paper, the authors have investigated the measured attenuation and rainfall intensities at a few locations in India, namely Amritsar, Kolkata, Kondapalli, and New Delhi. The proposed model predicts rain-induced attenuation as a function of a few location-centric parameters, like the height from the mean sea level, the latitude, elevation to the satellite, the rainfall intensity, and the frequency of the signal which the measurement is made at. The proposed model shows a very good agreement with measurements over a few locations in Malaysia, Singapore, Nigeria, Cameroon, Fiji, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, Kenya, Indonesia, and the Netherlands. The validation of the model-based attenuation also shows a very good match with the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Satellite (TRMM) -retrieved path integrated attenuation (PIA) over the locations in India used in this study. The model-based attenuation values show a good match with the rain-induced attenuation obtained from the ITU-R model using the TRMM-retrieved rainfall over these locations.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) website team for providing the data for the study. The authors would also like to thank the India Meteorological Department (IMD) for providing the data for the study. The authors are thankful to Sona College of Technology, Salem, India, for providing the necessary infrastructure to carry out the work.

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The research was taken up by Dr. Rajasri Sen Jaiswal, the first author of the paper as one of the R&D activities of the Centre for Study on Rainfall and Radio wave Propagation, Sona College of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. It was not funded by any external organizations. However, the computers, the computational facilities, the internet services, and manpower were provided by the parent Institute.

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All authors contributed to the study's conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Dr. RSJ, and TLK. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Dr. RSJ and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Conceptualization: by Dr. RSJ; Methodology: by Dr. RSJ, and TLK; Formal analysis and investigation: by Dr. RSJ; Writing—original draft preparation: by Dr. RSJ; Writing—review and editing: by Dr. RSJ; editing (partially): by TLK; Funding acquisition: by Dr. RSJ; Resources: Dr. RSJ; Supervision: by Dr. RSJ.

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Sen Jaiswal, R., Lakshmi, K.T. In Search of a Location-Centric Rain Attenuation Model. Wireless Pers Commun 124, 315–332 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-09357-4

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