On the modelling of ionospheric irregularities from Fresnel diffraction patterns.
Abstract
Titheridge's (1971) work on diffraction by isolated irregularities is used as a basis for investigating irregularities which produce Fresnel diffraction patterns on the ground at 137 MHz. This theory enables constructing models for electron density fluctuations which generate diffraction patterns to fit observed patterns.
- Publication:
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Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0021-9169(76)90087-8
- Bibcode:
- 1976JATP...38.1027H
- Keywords:
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- Diffraction Patterns;
- Fresnel Diffraction;
- Ionospheric Electron Density;
- Ionospheric Propagation;
- Very High Frequencies;
- Wave Diffraction;
- Asymmetry;
- Atmospheric Models;
- Radio Beacons;
- Radio Waves;
- Scintillation