Reflection of radio waves from an arbitrary ionospheric layer
Abstract
A method for calculating the complex reflection coefficient of radio waves from the ionosphere is developed in the framework of the isotropic ionosphere, scalar wave approximation. Numerical algorithms are presented for calculating radio-wave reflection from ionospheric layers of arbitrary shape, e.g., nonmonotonic layers in the case of reflection at frequencies higher than the maximum allowable frequency.
- Publication:
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Radiotekhnika i Elektronika
- Pub Date:
- February 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989RaEl...34..233K
- Keywords:
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- Ionospheric Propagation;
- Radio Probing;
- Reflected Waves;
- Wave Reflection;
- Algorithms;
- Atmospheric Models;
- Atmospheric Stratification;
- Ionospheric Electron Density;
- Reflectance;
- Communications and Radar