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The determination of representative ionospheric conductivity parameters for ELF propagation in the earth‐ionosphere waveguide
Author(s) -
Bannister Peter R.
Publication year - 1985
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/rs020i004p00977
Subject(s) - ionosphere , daytime , attenuation , reflection (computer programming) , extremely low frequency , conductivity , ionospheric absorption , computational physics , ionospheric reflection , geophysics , physics , geology , atmospheric sciences , optics , electromagnetic field , computer science , quantum mechanics , programming language
In this article, we use experimentally determined values of the ELF effective attenuation rate and excitation factor, along with a modified theory of Greifinger and Greifinger, to establish representative ionospheric conductivity parameters for each propagation path over which ELF measurements were made from 1966 to 1982. Both daytime and nighttime (ambient and disturbed) propagation conditions will be considered. The representative ionospheric parameters include the reflection height h 0 , inverse scale height β, and reference height H .