Nonlinear Phenomena in the Ionosphere

✍ Scribed by A. V. Gurevich (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Series: Physics and Chemistry in Space 10
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nonlinear effects in the ionosphere (cross modulation of radio waves) have been known since the 1930s. Only recently, however, has the rapid increase in the power and directivity of the radio transmitters made it possible to alter the properties of the ionosphere strongly and to modify it artificially by applying radio waves. This has revealed a variety of new physical phenomena. Their study is not only of scien­ tific interest but also undisputedly of practical interest, and is presently progressing very rapidly. This monograph is devoted to an exposition of the present status of theoretical research on this problem. Particular attention is paid, naturally, to problems in the development of which the author himself took part. It is my pleasant duty to thank V. L. Ginzburg, L. P. Pitaevskii, V. V. Vas'kov, E. E. Tsedilina, A. B. Shvartsburg, and Va. S. Dimant for useful discussions and for valuable remarks during various stages of the work on the problem considered in this book. Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Plasma Kinetics in an Alternating Electric Field....Pages 14-124
Self-Action of Plane Radio Waves....Pages 125-175
Interaction of Plane Radio Waves....Pages 176-206
Self-Action and Interaction of Radio Waves in an Inhomogeneous Plasma....Pages 207-281
Excitation of Ionosphere Instability....Pages 282-352
Back Matter....Pages 353-372

✦ Subjects

Physics, general