An asymptotic three-dimensional technique to study radio wave propagation in the presence of a localized perturbation of environment

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 515-524

  Soloviev, O V ^a   Agapov, V V ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CRACK PROPAGATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM; EARTH IONOSPHERE WAVEGUIDE; FINITE LATERAL EXTENT; IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; LOCALIZED PERTURBATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIFFRACTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

RADIO WAVES; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0031097328     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS02919     Document Type: Article

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