Heflection and Transmission at a Sharply-Bounded Ionosphere

摘要

Experimental evidence indicates the ionosphere can be treated as sharply-bounded for radio waves incident from be¬low at frequencies less than 200 kc. Equations are derived in this report for the calculation of reflection coefficients and characteristics of the waves excited within the ionosphere such as the direction of phase and energy propagation, phase velocity and attenuation rate. These equations are valid at all frequencies and any arbitrary angle of incidence.