June 1958 | Technical Report NBS Report 5582
Prediction of the Cumulative Distribution with Time of Ground Wave and Tropospheric Wave Transmission Loss
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Philip L. Rice, Anita G. Longley, and Kenneth A. Norton, “Prediction of the Cumulative Distribution with Time of Ground Wave and Tropospheric Wave Transmission Loss,” Technical Report NBS Report 5582, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Central Radio Propagation Laboratory, June 1958.
Philip L. Rice, Anita G. Longley, and Kenneth A. Norton
Abstract:
Part I of this report describes a method for predicting the cumulative distribution with time of transmission loss at frequencies above 10 megacycles per second over paths of arbitrary length. The method makes use of available information about terrain profiles and surface meteorological data, and is based on the CRPL radio standard atmospheres, in which the radio refractive index decreases linearly with height for the first kilometer above ground, and then decreases exponentially with height 1/. Discussion of the theoretical basis for this formula and a demonstration of its accuracy by comparison with experimental data are reserved for later parts of this report.
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