Lonal Bureau f Standards Library, N.IV. Bldg PB 161595 19« SEP 2- 5 92c. 94 ^Boulder laboratories BIBLIOGRAPHY ON METEORIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION BY WILHELM NUPEN U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS motions and Activities he functions of the National Bureau of Standards are set forth in the Act of Congn•-- VI J, 1901. as amended hy Congress in Puhlic Law 619, 1950. These include the development am maintenance of the national standards of measurement and the provision of means and method? making measurements consistent with these standards: the determination of physical constants and properties of materials: the development of methods and instruments for testing materials, devii and structures: advisory services to government agencies on scientific and technical pnddems: in- vention and development of devices to serve special needs of the Government: and the development of standard practices, codes, and specifications. 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NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS technical ^Ttete No. 94 May 29, 1961 BIBLIOGRAPHY ON METEORIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION by Wilhelm Nupen NBS Technical Notes are designed to supplement the Bu- reau's regular publications program. They provide a means for making available scientific data that are of transient or limited interest. Technical Notes may be listed or referred to in the open literature. They are for sale by the Office of Technical Services, U. S. Depart- ment of Commerce, Washington 25, D. C. DISTRIBUTED BY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF TECHNICAL SERVICES WASHINGTON 25, D. C. Price $2.75 BIBLIOGRAPHY ON METEORIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION by WILHELM NUPEN Prepared for The National Bureau of Standards by American Meteorological Society Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts April 1961 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction i Subject Outline iii Geographical Outline . xiv Chronological Index xvii Bibliography on Meteoric Wave Propagation 1 Author Index 112 BIBLIOGRAPHY ON METEORIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION By: Wilhelm Nupen This bibliography constitutes the second in a series of four or five being prepared by Meteorological Abstracts for the Boulder Lab- oratories of the National Bureau of Standards. The general subject area of these compilations is Propagation of Electromagnetic (Radio) Waves in the Atmosphere . The first, comprising over 1, 400 titles, was concerned with normal or abnormal Ionospheric propagation. The present bibliography consists of 366 abstracts on Meteor Trail Propagation, arranged alphabetically by author and including articles dating from the earliest studies by Nagaoka (B-254) in 1929 on the effect of meteoric ionization on radio communication, to the numerous papers reflecting the recent emphasis on meteor burst com- munication. No material published after 1960 has been included. Future bibliographies will cover the subjects of Radio Reflec - tions from Auroras. Radioastronomy and Tropospheric Radio Wave Propagation . The items in the Ionospheric Propagation Bibliography were numbered A-l to A-1404; those in this Meteor Propagation Biblio - graphy by analogy from B-l to B-367, and so on. Abstracts have been taken, in the main, from the published or unpublished abstracts in the files of Meteorological Abstracts and Bibliography (1950-59) or Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Ab- stracts (1960). The published item number is indicated wherever pertinent. These numbers give a key to the volume and number of MAB or MGA in which the item first appeared. For example, 10. 1- 167 indicates an abstract (number 167) in Vol. 10, Number 1 (Jan. 1959 of MAB : 11D-35 would be the 35th item in the special biblio- graphy appearing in Part II of the April 1960 issue of MGA). A number of the abstracts vere taken from an excellent bibliography by L. A. Manning (B-368). These are properly credited to this author. The authors of abstracts, whose initials appear in this bibliography, are listed below. The subject and geographic out- lines give a good idea of the scope and detail of subject matter found herein. An author and chronological index appear at the end of the bibliography. We wish to express appreciation for the assistance rend- ered by Mrs. Dorothy Gropp in preparing and checking bibliographic entries; and also to Geza Thuronyi for improving the accuracy of the compilating. Malcolm Rigby Editor List of abstractors on staff of Meteorological Abstracts A. A. Andrew Assur W.N. - Wilhelm Nupen C . E. P. B. • C. E.P.Brooks M.R. Malcolm Rigby I.L.D. Isadore L. Dordick M.L.R. Mary L. Rice G. J. E. Gwynne J. Evans E. Z. S. • Evelyn Z. Sinha M.P.K. Mollis P. Kramer I.S. Ismael Saad N.N. Nndem Nndem G.T. Geza Thuronyi Other sources of abstracts L. A. Manning Authors abstracts Physics Abstracts ii SUBJECT OUTLINE I. GENERAL WORKS 1. Textbooks and collective works. B-7, 55, 197, 248, 259, 261, 285 2. Monographs. B-7, 34, 194, 260, 314 3. Catalogs. B -265, 266 4. Statistical data. B-124, 172, 174, 179, 202, 218, 225, 244, 253, 265, 266, 275, 318, 336 5. Theses. B-72 6. Bibliographies. B-7, 38, 99, 153, 169, 194, 248, 310, 314, 331, 368 7. Conferences, Symposia. B-26, 36, 50, 120, 142, 158, 165, 169, 173, 186, 196, 214, 245, 259, 283, 290, 308, 340 8. General reviews and surveys. B-68, 69, 159, 160, 182, 192, 226, 233, 243, 245, 305, 317, 318, 325, 330, 331, 349 II. THEORIES Booker's theory. B-230 Booker and Cohen's. B-227 Browne and Kaiser's/diffraction. B-208 Brysk's mode theory. B-22, 23 Dobson's/meteor. B-248 Eshleman's/VHF meteor echoes. B-135 Eshleman and Manning's. B-145 Fraunhofer's/diffraction. B-100 Hawkin's/radiant distribution. B-239 Herlofson's/interaction. B-57, 187 Herlofs on 's /plasma resonance. B-282 Hoppe's. B-31 Kaiser's/diffusion. B-162 Kaiser and Closs*. B-13 Kolmogorof f -Heisenberg 's/turbulence. B-17 Lindeman's/meteor. B-248 Lovell and Clegg's. B-74 v Manning's equivalent theorems/echo, waves. B-234 in Opik's/meteor. B-248 Sparrow's/meteor. B-248 Tank and Langmuir's/plasma resonance. B-137 Wait's mode theory. B-366 Whipple's photographic trail studies. B-231 Miscellaneous Ambipolar diffusion. B-316 Analysis of body Doppler records. B-275 Deceleration of meteors. B-298 Diffraction. B-20, 43, 215 Diffusion. B-47 Effect of on echo rate. B-74, 163 Electromagnetic waves. B-92 Ellipsoidal. B-150 Forward scatter. B-148, 149 Hypothesis/irregularity of trail ionization. B-213 Least square. B-122 Long duration echoes. B-15, 118 Low and high density trails. B-22, 23, 79 Meteors. B-235, 244, 260 Meteor echoes. B-202 Meteor effects/radio communication. B-254, 291-293 Meteor height distribution. B-163, 166 Meteor radar reflections. B-137, 161, 168 Meteor scattering. B-137, 163 Meteor trail ionization. B-104, 137, 163, 186 Molecular diffusion. B-16 Phenomenological theory/meteoric radar echoes. B-199 Photographic meteor theory. B-87 Physical meteor theory. B-335 Radio determination/winds. B-122 Radio echo meteor height distribution. B-327 Radio meteor theory. B-87 Ray theory. B-234 Rough trail paradox. B-17 Scattering. B-118, 163 Trail formation. B-10 Trail orientation. B-252 Turbulence. B-152 Wind turbulence/echoes. B-231 in. FORMULAS Back-scatter power. B-100 Campbell's differential eqs. B-134 Echo duration prediction. B-205 Echo rate. B-100 Effect of refraction on echo strength. B-224 IV Fresnel's integrals. B-65 Herl ofson's eqs. for meteor evaporation. B-299, 321 Intensity of meteor scattered radio waves. B-187 Lovell and Clegg's scattering formula. B-130, 184, 187, 203 Lovell 's formula for signal strength. B-201 Measuring electron trail density. B-188 Meteor evaporation eqs. B-87 Radar cross section of diffuse meteor trails. B-130 Rate of meteors/incident flux. B-167 Registration time of meteor reflection. B-267 Relation between velocity, echo, range, whistle pitch. B-217 Signal rate. B-24 Solution for diffusion eqs. B-55 Time duration. B-100 Weiss 's sets of approx. electron density. B-321 Whipple's formulas. B-31 IV. ATMOSPHERIC and COSMIC STRUCTURE and PHYSICS 1. Atmospheric stratification D-region. B-69 E-region. B-12, 32, 57, 76, 120, 167, 178, 194, 195, 225, 226, 233, 254, 256, 258, 287, 291, 292, 294, 359, 363 Es - B-4, 27, 58, 107, 159, 190, 214, 236, 254, 257 F -layer B-49 ?2 layer.