cloud attenuation
cloud attenuation
[′klau̇d ə‚ten·yə′wā·shən] (electromagnetism)
The attenuation of microwave radiation by clouds (for the centimeter-wavelength band, clouds produce Rayleigh scattering); due largely to scattering, rather than absorption, for both ice and water clouds.
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