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Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6559-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6559-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
Research article
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04 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 04 Dec 2020

Atmospheric observations with E-band microwave links – challenges and opportunities

Martin Fencl, Michal Dohnal, Pavel Valtr, Martin Grabner, and Vojtěch Bareš

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Commercial microwave links operating at E-band frequencies are increasingly being updated and are frequently replacing older infrastructure. We show that E-band microwave links are able to observe even light rainfalls, a feat practically impossible to achieve by older 15–40 GHz devices. Furthermore, water vapor retrieval may be possible from long E-band microwave links, although the efficient separation of gaseous attenuation from other signal losses will be challenging in practice.
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