Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan

Dust storms are meteorological phenomena which occur for a percentage of time in arid and semi arid areas especially at African Sahara and Middle East. Measurements at existing microwave links have showed dust storms can potentially result in serious attenuation in signal level especially at Ku b...

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Main Authors:	Elfatih A., A. Elsheikh, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Chebil, Jalel, Bashir, Saad Osman, Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2013
Subjects:	T Technology (General)
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spelling	iium-356362014-03-05T07:30:58Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/35636/ Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan Elfatih A., A. Elsheikh Islam, Md. Rafiqul Chebil, Jalel Bashir, Saad Osman Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil T Technology (General) Dust storms are meteorological phenomena which occur for a percentage of time in arid and semi arid areas especially at African Sahara and Middle East. Measurements at existing microwave links have showed dust storms can potentially result in serious attenuation in signal level especially at Ku band and higher frequencies with direct impact on telecommunications system performance. Only a limited amount of research has been carried out and the available data was very scarce. Few prediction models have been developed to estimate microwave signal attenuation during the dust storm based on scattering theory and approximation of dust properties. However, real dust storm is a complex phenomenon which is difficult to be described by theoretical physical or mathematical models [5-6]. In this paper, an evaluation of the existing attenuation prediction models has been done based on the measured dust storm properties and measured attenuation in Sudan IOP Publishing 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/35636/1/dust.pdf Elfatih A., A. Elsheikh and Islam, Md. Rafiqul and Chebil, Jalel and Bashir, Saad Osman and Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil (2013) Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 53. pp. 1-7. ISSN 1757-8981
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spellingShingle	T Technology (General) Elfatih A., A. Elsheikh Islam, Md. Rafiqul Chebil, Jalel Bashir, Saad Osman Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
description	Dust storms are meteorological phenomena which occur for a percentage of time in arid and semi arid areas especially at African Sahara and Middle East. Measurements at existing microwave links have showed dust storms can potentially result in serious attenuation in signal level especially at Ku band and higher frequencies with direct impact on telecommunications system performance. Only a limited amount of research has been carried out and the available data was very scarce. Few prediction models have been developed to estimate microwave signal attenuation during the dust storm based on scattering theory and approximation of dust properties. However, real dust storm is a complex phenomenon which is difficult to be described by theoretical physical or mathematical models [5-6]. In this paper, an evaluation of the existing attenuation prediction models has been done based on the measured dust storm properties and measured attenuation in Sudan
format	Article
author	Elfatih A., A. Elsheikh Islam, Md. Rafiqul Chebil, Jalel Bashir, Saad Osman Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil
author_facet	Elfatih A., A. Elsheikh Islam, Md. Rafiqul Chebil, Jalel Bashir, Saad Osman Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil
author_sort	Elfatih A., A. Elsheikh
title	Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
title_short	Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
title_full	Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
title_fullStr	Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
title_full_unstemmed	Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
title_sort	preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in sudan
publisher	IOP Publishing
publishDate	2013
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/35636/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/35636/1/dust.pdf
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Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan

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