ANALYTICAL MODEL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES PROPAGATION AND LOCATION OF INCLINED PLASMA LAYERS USING OCCULTATION DATA

An analytical model for the description of the electromag- netic waves propagation in a layered medium consisting of sectors hav- ing the locally spherical symmetric distributions of refractivity is in- troduced. Model presents analytical expressions for the phase path and refractive attenuation of electromagnetic waves. In∞uence of the inclined ionospheric layers is a cause of the ionospheric interference in the trans-ionospheric communication satellite-to-satellite or satellite- to-Earth links. It follows from the analytical model that the identiflca- tion of the inclined ionospheric layers contributions and measurements of their location and parameters may be fulfllled by use of compara- tive analysis of the amplitude variations and the eikonal acceleration