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GPM-Derived Climatology of Attenuation Due to Clouds and Precipitation at Ka-Band
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posted on 2021-06-24, 11:52 authored by Alessandro Battaglia, Kamil Mroz, Daniel Watters, Fabrice ArdhuinAttenuation from clouds and precipitation hinders the use of Ka-band in SARs, radar altimeters and in satellite link communications. The NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, with its core satellite payload including a dual-frequency (13.6 and 35.5 GHz) radar and a multifrequency passive microwave radiometer, offers an unprecedented opportunity for better quantifying such attenuation effects. Based on four years of GPM products, this article presents a global climatology of Ka-band attenuation caused by clouds and precipitation and analyses the impact of the precipitation diurnal cycle. As expected, regions of high attenuation mirror precipitation patterns. Clouds and precipitation cause two-way attenuation at 35.5 GHz in excess of 3 dB about 1.5% of the time in the regions below 65°, peaking at as much as 10% in the tropical rain belt and the South Pacific Convergence Zone and at circa 5% along the storm tracks of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Confirming previous findings, the diurnal cycle is particularly strong over the land and during the summer period; while over the ocean, the diurnal cycle is generally weaker some coherent features emerge in the tropical oceans and in the northern hemisphere. Results are useful for estimating data loss from (sun-synchronous) satellite adopting active instruments/links at a frequency close to 35 GHz.
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IEEE Transactions On Geoscience And Remote Sensing, vol. 58, no. 3, March 2020Author affiliation
Department of Physics and AstronomyVersion
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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote SensingVolume
58Issue
3Pagination
1812 - 1820Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineersissn
0196-2892eissn
1558-0644Acceptance date
2019-10-20Copyright date
2019Available date
2021-06-24Publisher DOI
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EnglishPublisher version
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Science & TechnologyPhysical SciencesTechnologyGeochemistry & GeophysicsEngineering, Electrical & ElectronicRemote SensingImaging Science & Photographic TechnologyEngineeringAttenuationcloud and precipitationKa-bandradarLIQUID WATER PATHGLOBAL PRECIPITATIONDIURNAL CYCLEFREQUENCYINTENSITYRAINFALLSURFACESPACE
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