Wave Propagation in the Ionosphere

✍ Scribed by Karl Rawer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 479
• Series: Developments in Electromagnetic Theory and Applications 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, the author draws on his broad experience to describe both the theory and the applications of wave propagations. The contents are presented in four parts and the sequence of these parts reflect the development of ionospheric and propagational research in areas such as space research geophysics and communications.
The first part of the book presents an outline of the theory of electromagnetic waves propagating in a cold electron plasma. For reference, vector analysis, dyadics and eigenvalues introduced in this part are presented in the appendices.
Practical aspects of radio wave propagation are the subject of the second part. The typical conditions in different frequency ranges are discussed and the irregular features of the ionospheric structure such as sound and gravity waves are also considered.
Warm plasma and the effects of ions are considered in the third part, which includes a discussion of sound-like waves in electron and ion plasmas. Nonlinear effects and instabilities are described in the fourth part.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-5
Refraction of radio waves in a plasma. Simplest case....Pages 7-18
Some effects of refraction....Pages 19-26
Properties of a magnetized plasma....Pages 27-32
Electromagnetic waves in a cold gyrotropic plasma....Pages 33-42
Echoes from a plasma layer....Pages 43-51
Propagation of radio waves in a cold magnetoplasma....Pages 53-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Propagation in the space between Earth and ionosphere (deka- and hektometer-waves)....Pages 69-107
Propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide (Kilometric and longer waves)....Pages 109-138
Propagation through the ionosphere....Pages 139-158
The real ionosphere: Irregularities and acoustic-gravity waves....Pages 159-190
Propagation in structured media....Pages 191-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-224
Collisional attenuation....Pages 225-243
Kinetic theory of a Lorentz plasma....Pages 245-255
The Boltzmann equation of a compressible plasma....Pages 257-272
Waves in a warm isotropic plasma....Pages 273-280
Wave in a warm gyrotropic plasma....Pages 281-291
Plasma waves....Pages 293-304
Front Matter....Pages 305-307
Plasma under moderate energy input....Pages 309-317
Non-linear phenomena....Pages 319-328
Front Matter....Pages 305-307
Incoherent scatter....Pages 329-348
Instabilities and resonances....Pages 349-375
Natural (low frequency) emissions....Pages 377-386
Heavy disturbances....Pages 387-399
Back Matter....Pages 401-487

✦ Subjects

Astrophysics and Astroparticles;Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics