Modeling electromagnetic propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1420-1429

  Cummer, Steven A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH IONOSPHERE WAVEGUIDE; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN FORMULATION; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCIES; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034261639     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.898776     Document Type: Article

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