Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 12
Articles | Volume 18, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-3327-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-3327-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 12
Research article
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18 Dec 2018
Research article |  | 18 Dec 2018

Rain attenuation prediction model for satellite communications based on the Météo-France ensemble prediction system PEARP

Isabelle Dahman, Philippe Arbogast, Nicolas Jeannin, and Bouchra Benammar

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This paper proposes an innovative method for optimizing the transmissions of high throughput satellites based on weather forecasts. Such transmissions are particularly sensitive to the presence of hydrometeors, which attenuate the signal. A model to forecast the attenuation based on forecasted rainfall amounts is presented. The valuable contribution of weather forecasts in the system optimization is demonstrated as well as the benefit of using ensemble forecasts over deterministic forecasts.
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