The Propagation of Radio Waves: The Theory of Radio Waves of Low Power in the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere

Preface 1. The ionosphere and magnetosphere 2. The basic equations 3. The constitutive relations 4. Magnetoionic theory I. Polarisation and refractive index 5. Magnetoionic theory II. Rays and group velocity 6. Stratified media. The booker quartic 7. Slowly varying medium. The W.K.B. solution 8. The Airy integral function and the Stokes phenomenon 9. Integration by steepest descents 10. Ray tracing in a loss-free stratified medium 11. Reflection and transmission coefficients 12. Ray theory results for isotropic ionosphere 13. Ray theory results for anisotropic plasmas 14. General ray tracing 15. Full wave solutions for isotropic ionosphere 16. Coupled wave eqations 17. Coalescence of couling points 18. Full wave methods for anisotropic stratified media 19. Applications of full wave methods Answers to problems Bibliography Index of definitions of the more important symbols Subject and name index.