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Research on Methods for Quantifying Attenuation due to the Wet Antenna Effect
Skoumal, Vladimír ; Dvořák, Radim (referee) ; Bubniak, Milan (advisor)
The topic is the calculation of precipitation using commercial microwave links. Since current techniques in meteorology are not perfect, this way of measurement can be a suitable complement to meteorological instruments. One of the current problems is wet antenna attenuation. This is an excess attenuation that affects the final precipitation calculation. In the first part of the thesis, microwave connections are generally described, how they look, how they are put into operation and their important parameters. Furthermore, this section contains a theoretical analysis of precipitation, various types of measurement of this quantity, and a description of the possibilities of measuring precipitation using microwave links. An important theoretical part is the description of the methods for calculating the WAA or wet antenna attenuation, where the Schleiss, Leijnse and Pastorek methods are described. Furthermore, freely usable libraries are described in the work, which contain functions for calculations of precipitation using microwave links. The last theoretical part describes the Telcorain application, which is used to calculate precipitation at this work. The second part of this work contains the changes made in the code of the Telcorain application. It also contains a comparison of WAA methods for calculating precipitation as well as variously selected sets of microwave links for different rain events and development development of own method for WAA calculation.
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