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Though we had been aware that the thermal motions of the electrons are usually faster than those caused by electromagnetic waves, an effect on wave propagation has not been admitted in Chapters 1 to 12. This was justified by the fact that the individual contributions to the current density should compensate each other due to the isotropy of the thermal motions. Almost all phenomena observed with ground-based ionospheric sounding can indeed be explained satisfactorily by cold plasma theory.
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Rawer, K. (1993). Kinetic theory of a Lorentz plasma. In: Wave Propagation in the Ionosphere. Developments in Electromagnetic Theory and Applications, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3665-7_14
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