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Data description paper
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27 Aug 2021
Data description paper |
| 27 Aug 2021
| 27 Aug 2021
A year of attenuation data from a commercial dual-polarized duplex microwave link with concurrent disdrometer, rain gauge, and weather observations
Dept. of Hydraulics and Hydrology, Czech Technical
University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Vojtěch Bareš
Dept. of Hydraulics and Hydrology, Czech Technical
University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Martin Fencl
Dept. of Hydraulics and Hydrology, Czech Technical
University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Marc Schleiss
Dept. of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft
University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
Joël Jaffrain
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, EPFL,
Lausanne, Switzerland
Alexis Berne
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, EPFL,
Lausanne, Switzerland
Jörg Rieckermann
Dept. of Urban Water Management, Eawag: Swiss Federal
Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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An original dataset of microwave signal attenuation and rainfall variables was collected during 1-year-long field campaign. The monitored 38 GHz dual-polarized commercial microwave link with a short sampling resolution (4 s) was accompanied by five disdrometers and three rain gauges along its path. Antenna radomes were temporarily shielded for approximately half of the campaign period to investigate antenna wetting impacts.
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