SystemAntEffArea {radar}

Antenna effective area

Description

SystemAntEffArea returns the antenna effective area From Rinehart (1997), Eqn 4.5

Usage

SystemAntEffArea(G, lam)

Arguments

G

Antenna Gain [dB]

lam

Radar wavelength [m]

Value

Ae

Antenna effective area [unitless]

Author(s)

Jose Gama

Source

Nick Guy, 2014 PyRadarMet - Python Fundamental Calculations in Radar Meteorology https://github.com/nguy/PyRadarMet

R. E. Rinehart, 1997 Radar for Meteorologists Rinehart Publishing

References

Nick Guy, 2014 PyRadarMet - Python Fundamental Calculations in Radar Meteorology https://github.com/nguy/PyRadarMet

R. E. Rinehart, 1997 Radar for Meteorologists Rinehart Publishing