Abstract
We have considered for the first time the effects which the sphericity of the Earth has on the eigenmodes of the ionospheric MHD waveguide. We investigate how the continuous spectrum is altered when we make the transition from a plane-parallel model of the waveguide to a spherical one.
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Leningrad State University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 34, No. 8, pp. 863–871, August, 1991.
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Ovchinnikov, A.O. A spherical model of the ionospheric MHD waveguide. Radiophys Quantum Electron 34, 698–704 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01036973
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01036973