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The Effect of Collisions Upon the Virtual Heights of Low‐Frequency Radio Waves Reflected From the Ionosphere
Author(s) -
Ferraro A. J.,
Tou C. P.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1002/rds196617769
Subject(s) - ionosphere , computation , radio wave , physics , magnetic field , computational physics , radio propagation , optics , computer science , geophysics , astronomy , algorithm , quantum mechanics
This paper presents some results of virtual‐height computations by full‐wave and ray‐optics methods for low‐frequency radio waves reflected from a stratified ionosphere. It is concluded that ray optics without collisions included would give more accurate results than if collisions are included in the computations for both the ordinary and extraordinary modes. This has been substantiated by accurate full‐wave computations taking into account the earth's magnetic field. The subject of a correction factor is briefly considered.