Theory of radio wave propagation over the sea surface

Problems of ultra-long-range propagation in the atmosphere and waveguide propagation over the sea surface are difficult to solve because of their boundary value nature. Some boundary value problems in acoustics and radiophysics have recently been reformulated as initial-value problems that are more convenient for numerical and statistical analyses. An attempt is made to accomplish a similar task for boundary value problems of short wave propagation in the earth's atmosphere. This is done for a simple problem, that of radio wave propagation in a spherically layered atmosphere over an ideally conducting sea surface.