TY - BOOK AU - Budden,K.G. TI - The propagation of radio waves: : the theory of radio waves of low power in the ionosphere and manetosphere SN - 0 521 36952 2 U1 - 621.371/B87 PY - 1985/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - IONÓSFERA KW - ONDAS DE RADIO KW - CIENCIAS ESPACIALES N1 - Incluye índice: páginas 652-669; Bibliografía: páginas 614-642; 1. The ionosphere and magnetosphere -- 2. The basic equations -- 3. The constitutive relations -- 4. Magnetoionic theory I. Polarisation and refractive index -- 5. Magnetoionic theory 2. Rays and group velocity -- 6. Stratified media. The booker quartic -- 7. Slowly varying medium. The W.K.B. solutions -- 8. The airy integral function and the Stokes phenomenon -- 9. Integration by steepest descens -- 10. Ray tracing in a loss-free stratified medium -- 11. Reflection and transmission coefficients -- 12. Ray theory results for isotropic ionosphere ER -