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Absorption of ordinary electromagnetic waves in the presence of fine-scale plasma stratification

Journal Article · · Sov. J. Plasma Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
OSTI ID:7236154
The ordinary electromagnetic wave is intensely absorbed at fine-scale plasma inhomogeneities in the region in which this wave is reflected. The absorption is due to a linear conversion into resonant longitudinal waves of the medium. Results calculated for the anomalous absorption agree with results found from experiments involving vertical probing of the ionosphere. (AIP)
Research Organization:
State Scientific-Research Institute of Radio and P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow
OSTI ID:
7236154
Journal Information:
Sov. J. Plasma Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Sov. J. Plasma Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 2:1; ISSN SJPPD
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English