Mode Coupling Conditions in the Ionosphere for Solor Ray Received at Stanford,
Abstract
The radio waves from the sun observed at ground base have to pass through two media - the corona and the ionosphere. Since both media are inhomogeneous, the effects of magnetoionic mode coupling on the variation of polarization properties of propagating electromagnetic radiation can be significant. By means of ray tracing technique, it can be shown that when the frequency of the radio waves is not close to the appropriate plasma level, the ray is almost a straight line. The discussions in this report pertain to frequencies of this category. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0716614
Entities
People
- P. C. W. Fung
- Y. C. Chin
Organizations
- Stanford University