Radio Wave Propagation. Consolidated Summary Technical Report of the Committee on Propagation of the National Defense Research Committee

Content: 
Front Matter, Page i
PUBLISHERS' NOTE, Page ii
FOREWORD, Page iii
FOREWORD TO CONSOLIDATED EDITION, Page iv
PREFACE, Pages v-vi
Chapter 1 - STANDARD PROPAGATION, Pages 1-10
Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY THEORY OF NONSTANDARD PROPAGATION, Pages 11-17
Chapter 3 - METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS, Pages 18-24
Chapter 4 - TRANSMISSION EXPERIMENTS, Pages 25-38
Chapter 5 - GENERAL METEOROLOGY AND FORECASTING, Pages 39-44
Chapter 6 - SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION OF MICROWAVES, Pages 45-52
Chapter 7 - A GRAPHICAL METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF STANDARD COVERAGE CHARTS, Pages 53-54
Chapter 8 - NOMOGRAPHIC SOLUTIONS FOR THE STANDARD CASE, Pages 55-63
Chapter 9 - THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF ERRORS IN RADAR DUE TO ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION, Pages 64-67
Chapter 10 - DIFFRACTION OF RADIO WAVES OVER HILLS, Pages 68-70
Chapter 11 - SITING AND COVERAGE OF GROUND RADARS, Pages 71-126
Chapter 12 - VARIATIONS IN RADAR COVERAGE, Pages 127-133
Chapter 13 - TROPOSPHERIC PROPAGATION AND RADIO METEOROLOGY, Pages 134-165
Chapter 14 - THEORETICAL TREATMENT OF NONSTANDARD PROPAGATION IN THE DIFFRACTION ZONE, Pages 166-167
Chapter 15 - CHARACTERISTIC VALUES FOR THE FIRST MODE FOR THE BILINEAR M CURVE, Pages 168-172
Chapter 16 - INCIPIENT LEAKAGE IN A SURFACE DUCT, Pages 173-175
Chapter 17 - THE SOLUTION OF THE PROPAGATION EQUATION IN TERMS OF HANKEL FUNCTIONS, Pages 176-177
Chapter 18 - ATTENUATION DIAGRAMS FOR SURFACE DUCTS, Pages 178-180
Chapter 19 - APPROXIMATE ANALYSIS OF GUIDED PROPAGATION IN A NONHOMOGENEOUS ATMOSPHERE, Pages 181-182
Chapter 20 - SOME THEORETICAL RESULTS ON NONSTANDARD PROPAGATION, Pages 183-184
Chapter 21 - PERTURBATION THEORY FOR AN EXPONENTIAL M CURVE IN NONSTANDARD PROPAGATION, Pages 185-190
Chapter 22 - FIRST ORDER ESTIMATION OF RADAR RANGES OVER THE OPEN OCEAN, Pages 191-192
Chapter 23 - CONVERGENCE EFFECTS IN REFLECTIONS TROPOSPHERIC LAYERS, Pages 193-194
Chapter 1 - METEOROLOGY—THEORY, Pages 197-225
Chapter 2 - METEOROLOGICAL EQUIPMENT FOR SHORT WAVE, Pages 226-234
Chapter 3 - METEOROLOGY—FORECASTING, Pages 235-257
Chapter 4 - REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS, Pages 259-268
Chapter 5 - DIELECTRIC CONSTANT, ABSORPTION AND SCATTERING, Pages 269-302
Chapter 6 - STORM DETECTION, Pages 303-305
Chapter 7 - ECHOES AND TARGETS, Pages 306-317
Chapter 8 - ANGLE-OF-ARRIVAL MEASUREMENTS, Pages 318-324
Chapter 1 - PROPAGATION OF RADIO WAVES: INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES, Pages 327-335
Chapter 2 - FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONS, Pages 336-344
Chapter 3 - ANTENNAS, Pages 345-363
Chapter 4 - FACTORS INFLUENCING TRANSMISSION, Pages 364-376
Chapter 5 - CALCULATION OF RADIO GAIN, Pages 377-432
Chapter 6 - COVERAGE DIAGRAMS, Pages 433-453
Chapter 7 - PROPAGATION ASPECTS OF EQUIPMENT OPERATION, Pages 454-460
Chapter 8 - DIFFRACTION BY TERRAIN, Pages 461-470
Chapter 9 - TARGETS, Pages 471-473
Chapter 10 - SITING, Pages 474-480
APPENDIX - TRANSMISSION EXPERIMENTS, Pages 481-511
GLOSSARY, Pages 512-513
APPENDIX: BIBLIOGRAPHY, Pages 514-530
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REPORTS ON TROPOSPHERIC PROPAGATION REPORT WPG-14, Pages 530-548