Modeling Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in the Troposphere Using the Parabolic Equation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1988, Pages 1464-1470

  Dockery, G Daniel ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--APPROXIMATION THEORY; METEOROLOGY;

HELMHOLTZ WAVE EQUATION; PARABOLIC EQUATION; TROPOSPHERE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0024088159     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.8634     Document Type: Article

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