Recursive two-way parabolic equation approach for modeling terrain effects in tropospheric propagation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2706-2714

  Ozgun, Ozlem ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation in troposphere; Fourier split step method; Parabolic wave equation; Terrain factors

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD PROPAGATING WAVES; BACKWARD PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION IN TROPOSPHERE; ENTIRE DOMAIN; FOURIER; FOURIER SPLIT-STEP METHOD; IRREGULAR SURFACE; PARABOLIC EQUATIONS; PARABOLIC WAVE EQUATION; PARAXIAL; REFLECTED WAVES; REFLECTING BOUNDARY; SHARP EDGES; SPLIT-STEP; SPLIT-STEP METHOD; TERRAIN EFFECT; TERRAIN FACTORS; TROPOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; TWO-COMPONENT;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 70349229620     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2027166     Document Type: Article

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