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ITALSAT radio propagation measurements at 50GHz in the United Kingdom
Measurements of troposhperic attenuation (excess and total) made at Sparsholt in Hampshire, UK using the ITALSAT satellite F1 beacon signal at 50 GHz.
ITALSAT F1 (owned and operated by the Italian Space Agency) was in geostationary orbit at 13 degrees east, and it could be seen from the receiving station at an elevation angle of 30 degrees. The received signal was vertically polarised and was sampled once a second. North-south tracking of the satellite with the beacon receiver maintained ~20dB of dynamic range thought of the measurement period.
The method applied to remove the nonatmospheric changes of the beacon signal and to establish the reference level from which to measure the excess and total attenuation is described in [Ventouras et.al., Long-term statistics of tropospheric attenuation from the Ka/U band ITALSAT satellite experiment in the United Kingdom, Radio Sci.,41,RS2007,doi:10.1029/2005RS003252]. The accuracy of fade level retrieval is estimated to be ~+/-0.5dB
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- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2012-05-25T12:27:11
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2012-05-25T12:27:11
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 4918af56410c6af1890950ae8f3c04ec
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- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/597C906A-B09E-4822-8B60-3B53EA8FC57F
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- CFARR
- Chilbolton
- radio propagation
- 50 GHz
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1997-03-31T23:00:00
- End date
- 2000-12-31T00:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data are prepared by Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) staff prior to submission to BADC for archiving.
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- 4918af56410c6af1890950ae8f3c04ec XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR): surface, radar and lidar measurements (1998-present) 7cbc3fc19bfa037a48ba4cba4b93544d
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-03-23T00:43:29
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
