Rain fade dependence model of long-term scintillation amplitude distribution at 12.5 GHz

Abstract

An extension of current scintillation stochastic models is described to examine the alteration of the scintillation amplitude distribution with the concurrent rain fade depth on earth-space paths. Descriptive statistical results of 12.5GHz scintillation at two sites show that the long-term magnitude of tropospheric scintillation steadily increases with worsening rain attenuation.