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Observations for one year over a 2.65 km path have yielded distributions with time of the depth of fading, duration of fading and the time between fades, and information on the weather situations producing rain which gives high attenuation. Observed attenuation has also been related to rainfall rate at a point.
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Harden et al. (1975) studied this question.
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