TY - JOUR AU - Singh, Mandeep Singh Jit AU - Hassan, S. S.I. AU - Ain, M. F. AU - Ghani, F. AU - Igarashi, Kiyoshi AU - Tanaka, Kenji AU - Iida, Mitsuyoshi PY - 2006 TI - Earth-To-Space Improved Model for Rain Attenuation Prediction at Ku-Band JF - American Journal of Applied Sciences VL - 3 IS - 8 DO - 10.3844/ajassp.2006.1967.1969 UR - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajassp.2006.1967.1969 AB - A model for predicting rain attenuation on earth-to-space was developed by using the measurement data obtained from tropical and equatorial region. The proposed rain attenuation model uses the complete rainfall rate cumulative distribution as input data. It was shown that significant improvements in terms of prediction error over existing attenuation model obtained.