%0 Journal Article %A Malyshenko, Yu. I. %A Roenko, A. N. %D 2012 %I Begell House %K remote sensing, radar, radio communication, rain drop size distribution function, terahertz frequency range %N 20 %P 1889-1896 %R 10.1615/TelecomRadEng.v71.i20.60 %T MILLIMETER AND SUBMILLIMETER WAVE ATTENUATION IN RAINS CONSIDERING SMALL DROPLETS IN RAIN DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION %U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/0632a9d54950b268,4dc2e21502959124,6f36ff734fb14dc1.html %V 71 %X It is shown that most of probability density distributions of rain drop sizes, widely used in calculations of rain attenuation statistics for microwave radar and communication systems, describe the real quantity of the rain small droplets rather inaccurately. New more adequate distribution function, which takes into account small droplets, is proposed for the short-wave domains of mm and THz bands. Taking into account the new distribution the radiation attenuation in rains of different intensity is calculated. %8 2012-12-12