Adding Water Vapour Attenuation to NPM Library `AttenuationByAtmosphericGases`

Previously, in NPM Javascript to compute Attenuation By Atmospheric Gases ( ITU-R P.676-9), the Javascript Library is published on NPM that computes the attenuation (unit of dB loss per km) given the frequency, temperature and the atmospheric pressure (unit of hPa).

with the latest commits to the package AttenuationByAtmosphericGases version 2.0.0, the library allows also computing the attenuation for water vapour.

As referenced in Page 15 of ITU-R P.676-9, the water vapour attenuation regarding to frequency of the radiowave, temperature, atmospheric pressure (unit of hPa) and the water-vapour density (unit of g/m3) is given in the following formula:

compute-water-vapour-attenuation-formula

Example:

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var GetWaterAttenuation = require('attenuationbyatmosphericgases').GetWaterAttenuation;
let frequency = 10;
let temperature = 15;
let pressure = 1013; // hpa
let density = 7.5; // g/m3
console.log(GetWaterAttenuation(frequency, temperature, pressure, density));

var GetWaterAttenuation = require('attenuationbyatmosphericgases').GetWaterAttenuation;
let frequency = 10;
let temperature = 15;
let pressure = 1013; // hpa
let density = 7.5; // g/m3
console.log(GetWaterAttenuation(frequency, temperature, pressure, density));

Frequency ranges: This library supports from 0 to 350 GHz.

Technology Stack

The library is built on Javascript and made public on NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/attenuationbyatmosphericgases

Github

Contributions are welcome: https://github.com/DoctorLai/AttenuationByAtmosphericGases

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am ‘Add some feature’
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request

Unit Tests

Unit tests are built on mocha and chai the Javascript unit testing framework, and you can run tests via npm test.

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describe('water', function() {
  it('water', function() {
    GetWaterAttenuation(10, 15, 1013, 7.5).should.be.closeTo(0.28112047608612034, 1e-3);
  }); 
});

describe('water', function() {
  it('water', function() {
    GetWaterAttenuation(10, 15, 1013, 7.5).should.be.closeTo(0.28112047608612034, 1e-3);
  }); 
});