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rain attenuation

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rain attenuation [′rān ə‚ten·yə‚wā·shən]
(communications)
Attenuation of radio waves when passing through moisture-bearing cloud formations or areas in which rain is falling; increases with the density of the moisture in the transmission path.


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The goal of this paper is to analyze the rain attenuation impact on the performance of the ground station (downlink performance) respectively on the received signal quality to the end user as presented in Figure 1.
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