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A new derivation of the W.K.B. solution for the coupled equations of radio waves in the ionosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. A. Bennett
Affiliation:
Monash University, Clayton, Australia, 3168

Extract

The W.K.B. solution for radio waves in a plane stratified ionosphere was obtained by Budden ((4), §§ 18.10 and 18.11) by a process using approximate diagonalization of the governing equations. Alternatively the solution may be obtained by specializing to the one-dimensional case the result of Bennett (1) which employs frequency scaling. Formally similar results were obtained by Ludwig (8) without explicitly introducing frequency scaling.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1976

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