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Theories for radio ground wave transmission over a multisection path
Author(s) -
Wait James R.
Publication year - 1980
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/rs015i005p00971
Subject(s) - electromagnetic radiation , transmission (telecommunications) , radio wave , acoustics , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , computational physics , optics , telecommunications , computer science
Two analytical methods for treating electromagnetic wave transmission over a multisection curved earth are compared. In the first method, the integral equation is reduced such as to yield sums of residue terms that turn out to be identical in form to the result obtained by a mode‐matching procedure. The approximations employed are similar only to the extent that waves reflected from the separation boundaries are neglected.