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Radio Occultations Using Earth Satellites - A Wave Theory Treatment
DESCANSO Book Series
Deep Space Communications and Navigation Series
Joseph H. Yuen, Editor-in-Chief
Volume 6
Radio Occultations Using Earth Satellites: A Wave Theory Treatment
Hard copies are now published by John Wiley & Sons
- William G. Melbourne
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Title
Foreword
xvii
Preface
xix
Acknowledgement
xxiii
Chapter 1:
Introduction
1
Chapter 2:
Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from a Spherical Boundary Using a Thin Phase Screen Model and Scalar Diffraction Theory
77
Chapter 3:
Scattering from a Large Transparent Sphere Based on Maxwell's Equations: Mie Scattering Theory
171
Chapter 4:
Wave Propagation in a Stratified Medium: The Thin-Film Approach
271
Chapter 5:
Propagation and Scattering in a Spherical-Stratified Refracting Medium
329
Chapter 6:
The Inverse Problem: Using Spectral Theory to Recover the Atmospheric Refractivity Profile
491
Appendix A: Miscellaneous Derivations
533
Appendix B: Caustic Surfaces
557
Appendix C: Multiple Ray Path Separation Altitudes
563
Appendix D: Third-Order Stationary Phase Theory
571
Appendix E: Bending by a Gaussian Electron Density Distribution
581
Appendix F: The Effect of Cycle Slips on Recovered Refractivity
583
Appendix G: Using the Sommerfeld–Watson Transformation
587
Appendix H: Characteristic Matrix in a Stack of Airy Layers
599
Appendix I: Field Equations in a Stratified Medium
605
Appendix J: Conditions for Near-Equivalence between
607
Glossary
611
Acronyms and Abbreviations
619
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