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Comparison of Surface Radio Refractivity Variability in the Northern and Southern of Quebec, Canada
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  • Yamina Bettouche,
  • Huthaifa obeidat,
  • Mahmood Mosleh,
  • Alli Alabdullah,
  • Basile L. Agba,
  • ammar kouki,
  • Raed A Abd-Alhameed
Yamina Bettouche
École de Technologie Supérieure
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Huthaifa obeidat
Jerash University

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Mahmood Mosleh
Middle Technical University
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Alli Alabdullah
University of Bradford
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Basile L. Agba
École de Technologie Supérieure
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ammar kouki
Ecole de technologie supérieure
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Raed A Abd-Alhameed
University of Bradford
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Abstract

A 39 years of archived meteorological data measured at two stations located in the northern and southern parts of the Quebec, Canada is used to estimating the surface refractivity and its dry and wet components. The results of the comparison of the obtained estimates showed that for all months the values of the dry component are higher in the northern part, whereas that the values of the wet component are higher in the southern part. Due to this, for several months of the year, the values of the surface refractivity are higher in the northern part and for the remaining months in the southern part. Moreover, in both parts, August is the month where the highest values of the surface refractivity were recorded. For this month, the slope of the surface refractivity trend in the northern is several times higher than that in the southern part.
Jul 2020Published in Radio Science volume 55 issue 7. 10.1029/2020RS007060