Research Article

Preliminary Investigation of the Potentialities of a Mesoscale Meteorological Model to Reproduce Experimental Statistics of Rain Attenuation on Earth-Space Links

Table 3

Annual mean climatological normals (1981–2010) for the experiments considered in this analysis.

LocationTemperature (min-max)Rain amountNo. of rainy days

Toulouse9.1/18.5°C638.3 mm96
Salon de Provence8.7/20°C579.3 mm57
Porto (85 km/Aveiro)10.0/18.8°C1141.0 mm106
Madrid7.6/20.6°C383.5 mm58
Milano7.8/17.1°C920.1 mm83
Longyearbyen airport−46.3/21.7°C271 mm86
Kourou23.4/30.2°C2838 mm191