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Trajectory of a short radio wave in the multilayer ionosphere

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An exact solution of the ray trajectory equation in the spherically symmetric ionosphere is derived by approximating the height distribution of the electron density by a set of quasi-linear and quasi-parabolic functions.

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  1. 12th Central Research Institute, Sergiev Posad-7, Moscow oblast, 141300, Russia

    N. D. Naumov

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Original Russian Text © N.D. Naumov, 2012, published in Prikladnaya Fizika, 2012, No. 4, pp. 54–59.

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Naumov, N.D. Trajectory of a short radio wave in the multilayer ionosphere. Plasma Phys. Rep. 39, 1060–1064 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X13050140

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