A Terrain Parabolic Equation Model for Propagation in the Troposphere

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 90-98

  Barrios, Amalia E ^a  

^a Naval Command   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; TROPOSPHERE;

SPHERICAL EARTH KNIFE EDGE; SPLIT STEP FOURIER ALGORITHM; TERRAIN PARABOLIC EQUATION MODEL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0028320103     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.272306     Document Type: Article

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