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Effects of the inhomogeneous background on radiation propagating through turbulent planetary atmospheres
Author(s) -
Haugstad Bjarne S.
Publication year - 1978
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 - 10.1029/rs013i003p00435
Subject(s) - physics , occultation , amplitude , atmosphere (unit) , scattering , turbulence , phase (matter) , radiation , spacecraft , computational physics , coupling (piping) , wave propagation , optics , atmospheric wave , atmospheric optics , astrophysics , astronomy , meteorology , gravity wave , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , engineering
Weak scattering, wave optics results are given for the first‐order log‐amplitude and phase, and for the second‐order phase and angle of arrival, of radiation propagating through a turbulent planetary atmosphere. The analytical results include the effects of coupling to the inhomogeneous background upon which the turbulence is superimposed. Such coupling significantly affects signal characteristics in stellar and spacecraft occultation experiments, in contrast to situations involving much shorter paths, as in terrestrial propagation experiments.