Ionospheric Radio / Edition 1

by Kenneth Davies

Overview

This book is aimed at professional scientists, engineers and students who need an intermediate-level reference and/or text. Students of aeronomy and radio wave propagation are introduced to basic wave theory in absorbing, anisotropic and dispersive media and to the physics of production, loss, and movement of plasma in the ionosphere presence of the geomagnetic field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780863411861
Publisher:	The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publication date:	05/01/1990
Series:	Electromagnetic Waves Ser. , #31
Pages:	600
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kenneth Davies

Table of Contents

Characteristics of waves and plasmas
solar-terrestrial relationships
magnetoionic theory
radio soundings of the ionosphere
morphology of the ionosphere
oblique propagation
amplitude and phase
earth-space propagation
ionospheric disturbances and their effects on radio communication
low, very low and extremely low frequencies
medium frequencies
high-frequency propagation predictions
propagation on very high frequencies
ionospheric modification
exercises.

Editorial Reviews

This introductory text replaces two earlier publications (Davies 1965, 1969). Among the topics: characteristics of waves and plasma, the solar-terrestrial system, the Appleton formula, radio soundings of the ionosphere, morphology of the ionosphere, oblique propagation, importance of amplitude and phase, earth-space propagation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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