Electromagnetic Waves Attenuation due to Rain: A Prediction Model for Terrestrial or LOS SHF and EHF Radio Communication Links

Because of the interest raised for SHF and EHF radio communications, the attenuation of electromagnetic waves by rain will always constitute a major concern for telecommunication engineers and scientists. The rain attenuation prediction models exposed in literature calculate the attenuation related to a given rain rate or else to a given percentage of time. The new model proposed in this paper, predicts with a good accuracy the percentage of time for which any given rain attenuation will be exceeded on terrestrial SHF, EHF radiowaves links, provided the rain rate R(001) (mm/h) that represents rain rate value exceeded for 0.01% of time in the locality of interest is available. R(001) (mm/h) data being available for most of the localities across the world in ITU-R data base, we may conclude that this new model proposed here, can be broadly and successfully used.