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Attenuation in Clouds and Downlink Availability > Florian Moll > 20.10.2009
Free-Space Optical Communications: Attenuation in Clouds and Downlink Availability
Joint Workshop of COST297 (HAPCOS, WG2) Florian
Moll, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
October 2009
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Table of Content
Motivation: Search for Cloud Propagating WavelengthsAttenuation in CloudsLink Availability Estimated from Earth Observation ProductsAvailability of Ground Station Diversity SystemsConclusion
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Motivation: Search for Cloud Propagating Wavelengths
Wavelengths must lie inside an atmospheric windowAbove 20µm no feasible wavelength can be found due to absorption bands of H2
OIn the VIS and NIR clouds are totally opaque
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Table of Content
Introduction: Search for Cloud Propagating WavelengthsAttenuation in CloudsLink Availability Estimated from Earth Observation ProductsAvailability of Ground Station Diversity SystemsConclusion
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Attenuation in Clouds
Variable water contentParticle size and shapeVariable thickness
Cloud type Base height [km]
Vertical extent [km]
Water content [g/m3]
Stratus 0.1 –
0.7 0.2 –
0.8 0.29
Stratocumulus 0.6 –
1.5 0.2 –
0.8 0.15
Nimbostratus 0.1 –
1.0 2 -
3 0.65
Altostratus 2 –
6 0.2 -
2 0.41
Cumulus 0.5 –
1.0 0.5 –
5 1.00
Cirrus 6 –
10 1.0 –
2.5 0.064
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Attenuation in Clouds
Particle size distribution and complex index of refraction → cloud modelThe Mie calculation results in extinction coefficient of the cloud
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Attenuation in Clouds
High attenuation over the optical spectrumMinimization of cloud attenuation: Wavelengths between 10 and 12
µm
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Attenuation in Clouds
Total attenuation is calculated with the vertical extent Stratus and Stratocumulus have an extent of 200-800m
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Table of Content
Motivation: Search for Cloud Propagating WavelengthsAttenuation in CloudsLink Availability Estimated from Earth Observation ProductsAvailability of Ground Station Diversity SystemsConclusion
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Link Availability Estimated from Earth Observation Products
Different databases: MODIS, ECC, MSG, SYNOP, etcECC-data chosen for current workAssumption: all cloud occurrence blocks the optical link (vertical)Five years of data regarded: 1990/1995/2000/2004/2005
Color Composite Coverage
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Link Availability Estimated from Earth Observation Products
Location Availability [%] Std [%]
Kiruna(Sweden) 33 9
Neustrelitz(Germany) 37 4
Oberpfaffenhofen(Germany) 40 6
Aix-en-Provence(France) 68 5
Villafranca(Spain) 66 9
Calar Alto(Spain) 63 11
Mean cloud coverage over the year
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Link Availability Estimated from Earth Observation ProductsHigh dynamics between and in the years
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Attenuation in Clouds and Downlink Availability > Florian Moll > 20.10.2009Slide 13
Table of Content
Motivation: Search for Cloud Propagating WavelengthsAttenuation in CloudsLink Availability Estimated from Earth Observation ProductsAvailability of Ground Station Diversity SystemsConclusion
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Attenuation in Clouds and Downlink Availability > Florian Moll > 20.10.2009Slide 14
Link Availability Estimated from Earth Observation Products
Multiple Stations increase availabilityDistance between stations must be sufficiently long (>900 km) to
have
negligible correlation between weather cellsIf stations are closer correlation must be taken into account
Fit of Correlation Coefficient
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Link Availability Estimated from Earth Observation Products
White area: over 60 % availability
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Availability of Ground Station Diversity Systems
System in Europe System in Germany
Comparison of two ground station diversity systems
Almost 99 % availability
Big difference
Small difference
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Availability of Ground Station Diversity Systems
Comparison of two ground station diversity systemsDecrease of variation → increase of reliability
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Attenuation in Clouds and Downlink Availability > Florian Moll > 20.10.2009Slide 18
Table of Content
Motivation: Search for Cloud Propagating WavelengthsAttenuation in CloudsLink Availability Estimated from Earth Observation ProductsAvailability of Ground Station Diversity SystemsConclusion
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Attenuation in Clouds and Downlink Availability > Florian Moll > 20.10.2009Slide 19
Conclusion and things to remember
Wavelengths between 10 and 12 µm can be used for lower cloud attenuationOptical window VIII (7 –
15 µm) offers possibilities of use (CO2
-Laser, Quantum Cascade Lasers)ECC data makes it possible to estimate link availability in EuropeAvailabilities exceeding 65 % over the year can be reached with a single ground station in southern EuropeAn availability of almost 99 % can be reached with four ground stations in southern EuropeWhen ground stations have large distances (>900 km) the correlation of weather cells is very low → negligible
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What remains
Statistics with larger databaseComparison of statistics derived from different databasesCalculation of ice cloud attenuation including realistic composition of non-spherical particles
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Attenuation in Clouds and Downlink Availability > Florian Moll > 20.10.2009Slide 21
Thank you very much for your attention…
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Attenuation in Clouds and Downlink Availability > Florian Moll > 20.10.2009Slide 22
Examples of Stratocumulus species
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Examples of Stratus species
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Examples of Cumulus species
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Wavelength selection for better cloud transmissionHigh resolution calculation of molecular absorption is done with
GENLN2, so all absorption lines are taken into account
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Cloud attenuation/ Mie scattering of spherical particles
Theory of Mie calculates the Extinction Efficiency Qe
of a single spherical water dropParameters: drop size r, wavelength λ, complex refractive index n
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Attenuation in Clouds
R. Martini (2005)
Particle density
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Cloud attenuation/ Cloud models
Clouds are described with proper modelParticle size distribution (spherical shape)Complex refractive indexHomogenous, not polluted
Particle size distribution f(r) of DermendjianConstants a, b, α, γ
describe the cloud
modelSize distribution for Stratus and Stratocumulus cloud (right)
( ) exp( )f r a r b r