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Simultaneous rainfall measurements at 36 GHz and 55 GHz on a common 4.1 km path show, under the conditions of these experiments, that the attenuation due to rainfall lies between the attenuation values predicted by the lognormal and the Best rain drop size distributions.
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Jayasuriya, D.A.R., Medeiros Filho, F.C. & Cole, R.S. Rainfall attenuation at 36 GHz and 55 GHz. Int J Infrared Milli Waves 4, 37–45 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01008967
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