Statistics of 1 minute rain rate has a major impact in the design of satellite communication systems at frequencies above 10 GHz. The effect of rain causes serious degradation of radio signals at frequencies above about 10 GHz; therefore, models for the prediction of statistics of excess path attenuation needed for the design of communication propagation paths requires a statistical description...

[1] A high‐resolution rainfall climatology based on observations from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission’s Precipitation Radar (PR) instrument is used to evaluate the influence of small tropical islands on climatological rainfall. Islands with areas between one hundred and several thousand km are considered in both the Indo‐Pacific Maritime Continent and Caribbean regions. Annual mean clim...

Resource pulses in the world's hot deserts are driven largely by rainfall and are highly variable in both time and space. However, run-on areas and drainage lines in arid regions receive more water more often than adjacent habitats, and frequently sustain relatively high levels of primary productivity. These landscape features therefore may support higher biotic diversity than other habitats, a...

In sub-Saharan Africa rain-fed agriculture cropping system uses a limited agricultural technology, occupies more than 95% of cultivated land. The impact of meteorological drivers on crop yields, and, in addition, the effects of herbicide application on farm productivity were examined at two locations; with a 70km distance between them, El Mazmum and El Dali in semi-arid Sudan. For ten successiv...

Millimeter wave band is still under exploited compared to the microwave band and it can be a potential frequency band for resolving the spectrum congestion. Therefore, millimeter-wave networks are undergoing intensive development to meet the necessity for high speed wireless data transmission. However, millimeter-wave band is largely affected by attenuation due to rain. While calculating link b...

WIND SCATTEROMETRY WITH IMPROVED AMBIGUITY SELECTION AND RAIN MODELING David Draper Electrical and Computer Engineering Doctor of Philosophy Although generally accurate, the quality of SeaWinds on QuikSCAT scatterometer ocean vector winds is compromised by certain natural phenomena and retrieval algorithm limitations. This dissertation addresses three main contributers to scatterometer estimate...

In Western Africa, the growth of cities has led to natural resource pollution, especially air pollution. Urban forests play a key role in filtering atmospheric particles and pollutants through canopy before reaching soil. This study aims quantify heavy metal fluxes an urban forest district Abidjan order assess its protection resources. A monitoring wet deposition (throughfall open field rain) l...

Driving through rain results in reduced visual performance, and car designers have proposed countermeasures in order to reduce the impact of rain on driving performance. In this paper, we propose a methodology dedicated to the quantitative estimation of the loss of visual performance due to the falling rain. We have considered the rain falling on the windshield as the main factor which reduces ...

Real-time and fine-grained rain information is crucial not only for climate research, weather prediction, water resources management, agricultural production, urban planning and natural disasters monitoring, but also for applications in our daily lives. However, because of the lack of rain detection systems and the high variable attribute of rain, both in time and space, the rain detection toda...

Environmental monitoring has become increasingly important due to the significant impact of human activities and climate change on biodiversity. Environmental sound sources such as rain and insect vocalizations are a rich and underexploited source of information in environmental audio recordings. This paper is concerned with the classification of rain within acoustic sensor recordings. We prese...