Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer (PDF)

1 Introduction 1.1 The atmospheric boundary layer 1.2 Waveguides 1.2.1 Evaporation duct 1.2.2 Elevated M-inversion, tropospheric duct 1.3 Turbulent fluctuations of the refractive index 2 Mathematical methods for UHF wave propagation and scattering in the troposphere 2.1 Parabolic approximation to a wave equation for spherically stratified media filled with turbulent irregularities of the refractive index. 2.2 Green's function for a parabolic equation in a stratified troposphere 2.3 Feynman path integral for wave propagation in random media 3 Wave field fluctuations in random media over a boundary interface 3.1 Reflection formulas for the wave field in random media over an ideally reflective boundary 3.2 Wave field fluctuations over the surface with impedance boundary conditions 4 Radio wave propagation in the evaporation duct 4.1 Perturbation theory for the spectrum of normal waves in a non-uniform troposphere 4.2 Spectrum of the normal waves in evaporation duct 4.3 Coherence function of the wave field in a random non-uniform troposphere 4.4 Excitation of the wave of continuous spectrum in a evaporation duct with random inhomogeneities of the refractive index 5 Impact of elevated M-inversions on the UHF/EHF field propagation beyond the horizon 5.1 Spectrum of the normal waves for the wave field in the presence of elevated M-inversion 5.2 Interaction between evaporation duct and elevated M-inversion 5.3 Excitation of the normal waves in elevated duct due to a wave scattering on random inhomogeneities of the refractive index 6 Non-conventional propagation mechanisms 6.1 Impact from random stratification of the refractive index on the UHF signal level over horizon 6.2 Single-scattering theory of the diffracted field 7 Appendix: Airy Functions

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