Abstract
A formula is derived for the average field intensity of high-angle rays in a randomly inhomogeneous ionosphere. The Huygens-Kirchhoff method is employed. Numerical studies show that the average intensity in a randomly inhomogeneous ionosphere is greater than the high-angle-ray intensity in an unperturbed medium. The dependence of this effect on propagation distance is shown.
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Institute of Applied Physics, Irkutsk State University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 398–403, May, 1993.
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Kulizhskii, A.V., Tinin, M.V. Average pedersen-ray intensity in randomly inhomogeneous ionosphere. Radiophys Quantum Electron 36, 253–255 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01091428
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01091428