Ionospheric Propagation of Plane Waves

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The propagation of plane waves in a stratified ionosphere is considered. It is shown that the construction of ''true'' charac teristic waves depends upon the diagonalization of a matrix by a Loewy transformation. Fo...