1. Determination of rain attenuation in Taiwan by empirical formula and measurement. Author Hsing-Yi Chen and Der-Phone Lin Subjects *ATTENUATION (Physics), *WIRELESS communications, *MEASUREMENT, *RAINDROPS Abstract An empirical formula for calculating Taiwan's specific rain attenuation is presented in this paper. Numerical results obtained from the empirical formula for calculating the specific rain attenuation are generally in good agreement with measurement data. The average error in the specific rain attenuation is less than 10%. This empirical formula is very efficient for the calculation of specific rain attenuation. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 26: 365–367, 2000. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Published 2000 Full Text View/download PDF