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Title: Atmospheric icing and broadcast antenna reflections
Authors: Ryerson, Charles C. (Charles Curtis)
Keywords: Antenna icing
Atmospheric icing
Mount Mansfield, Vermont
Mount Washington, New Hampshire
Commercial broadcasters
Ice detectors
Icing
Icing (Meteorology)
Meteorology
Publisher: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)
Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.)
Series/Report no.: CRREL report ; 88-11.
Description: CRREL Report
Abstract: This study assesses the effects of atmospheric icing on broadcast transmission reflections on two mountains— Mount Mansfield in northern Vermont and Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Experience and theory suggest that antenna ice accretions produce large signal reflections. Correlations between reflection coefficients and ice accretions on Rosemount ice detectors adjacent to antennas were low and occasionally negative. The unexpected correlations may be due to factors not measured, such as antenna tuning, ice type and ice location on the antenna system. Other confounding factors may include ice detector performance and methods used to compute antenna ice accretions from the ice detectors.
Rights: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11681/9069
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