Ionospheric Radio

Kenneth Davies is a senior research scientist at the Space Environment Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, and Professor Adjoint in the Departments of Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado. In 1988 he was appointed Guest Professor in the Department of Space Physics, Wuhan University, China. Between August 1975 and August 1976 he held the Webster Memorial Fellowship at the Physics Department of the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Dr Davies was chairman of the Electromagnetic Wave Propogation Panel of the Advisory Group in Aerospace Research and Development, and Chairman of Commission G of the US-URSI. He is the author of more than 130 scientific papers and two previous books on ionospheric radio propagation.

• Chapter 1: Characteristics of waves and plasmasChapter 2: Solar-terrestrial relationshipsChapter 3: Magnetoionic theoryChapter 4: Radio soundings of the ionosphereChapter 5: Morphology of the ionosphereChapter 6: Oblique propagationChapter 7: Amplitude and phaseChapter 8: Earth-space propagationChapter 9: Ionospheric disturbances and their effects on radio communicationChapter 10: Low, very low, and extremely low frequenciesChapter 11: Medium frequenciesChapter 12: High-frequency propagation predictionsChapter 13: Propagation on very high frequenciesChapter 14: Ionospheric modificationChapter 15: Exercises