Note: Front Cover -- Electromagnetic Waves in Stratified Media -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION -- PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION -- Chapter I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- 1. SCOPE OF THE SUBJECT -- 2. NOTATION AND SOME BASIC IDEAS -- 3. SUMMARY OF SUBJECT MATTER IN FOLLOWING CHAPTERS -- GENERAL REFERENCES -- Chapter II. REFLECTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES FROM HORIZONTALLY STRATIFIED MEDIA -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PLANE WAVE INCIDENCE -- 3. EXTENSION TO PERPENDICULAR INCIDENCE -- 4. IMPEDANCE MATCHING AND NATURAL OSCILLATIONS IN STRATIFIED MEDIA -- 5. LINE SOURCE EXCITATION -- 6. LINE SOURCE ON A HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM -- 7. LINE SOURCE OVER A THIN LAYER -- 8. THE RADIATION FIELD OF THE LINE SOURCE FOR ANY NUMBER OF LAYERS -- 9. MAGNETIC LINE SOURCE OVER A STRATIFIED MEDIUM -- 10. MAGNETIC LINE SOURCE OVER A DIELECTRIC COATED CONDUCTOR -- 11. THE FIELDS OF A VERTICAL ELECTRIC DIPOLE OVER A STRATIFIED HALF-SPACE -- 12. SOME EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS -- Appendix A: EVALUATION OF THE INTEGRAL P -- Appendix B: NUMERICAL RESULTS FOR SURFACE IMPEDANCE OF A STRATIFIED CONDUCTOR -- REFERENCES -- Chapter III. REFLECTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES FROM INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA WITH SPECIAL PROFILES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 3. INVERSE SQUARE PROFILE -- 4. PROFILE WITH AN EXPONENTIAL TRANSITION -- 5. OTHER EXPONENTIAL PROFILES -- 6. LINEAR PROFILE -- 7. EXTENSION TO VERTICAL POLARIZATION -- 8. EXPONENTIAL PROFILE WITH VERTICAL POLARIZATION -- 9. POWER LAW PROFILE FOR NORMAL INCIDENCE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter IV. APPROXIMATE METHODS FOR TREATING REFLECTIONS FROM INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA -- 1. INTRODUCTION AND THE CONVENTIONAL WKB METHOD -- 2. WKB METHOD FOR OBLIQUE INCIDENCE -- 3. GENERALIZATION OF WKB METHOD -- 4. GENERALIZED WKB METHOD FOR VERTICAL POLARIZATION -- 5. RELATION TO GEOMETRICAL OPTICS. , 6. APPLICATION TO TROPOSPHERIC PROPAGATION -- 7. THE PHASE INTEGRAL APPROACH -- 8. A GENERALIZATION OF THE PHASE INTEGRAL METHOD -- 9. PHASE INTEGRAL FOR VERTICAL POLARIZATION -- 10. RAPIDLY VARYING TRANSITION REGION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter V. PROPAGATION ALONG A SPHERICAL SURFACE -- 1. BASIC FORMULATION -- 2. THE WATSON TRANSFORMATION -- 3. FORMULA FOR SMALL CURVATURE -- 4. INFLUENCE OF AN INHOMOGENEOUS ATMOSPHERE -- 5. EQUIVALENT EARTH RADIUS CONCEPT -- 6. EXTENSION TO NON-LINEAR ATMOSPHERE -- 7. ASYMPTOTIC FORM OF THE SOLUTION -- 8. DISTANCE TO THE HORIZON -- 9. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter VI. FUNDAMENTALS OF MODE THEORY OF WAVE PROPAGATION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BASIC CONCEPTS -- 3. FORMULATION FOR FLAT EARTH -- 4. PROPERTIES OF THE MODES FOR FLAT EARTH CASE -- 5. INFLUENCE OF EARTH CURVATURE -- 6. MODE SERIES FOR A CURVED EARTH -- 7. ANTI-PODAL EFFECTS -- 8. RESONATOR-TYPE OSCILLATIONS BETWEEN EARTH AND THE IONOSPHERE -- 9. EXCITATION BY HORIZONTAL DIPOLES FOR THE CURVED EARTH -- 10. HIGHER APPROXIMATIONS TO THE CURVED EARTH THEORY -- 11. INFLUENCE OF STRATIFICATION AT THE LOWER EDGE OF THE IONOSPHERE -- 12. AVERAGE DECAY LAWS -- 13. APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- Chapter VII. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MODES FOR V.L.F. PROPAGATION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE GROUND WAVE -- 3. THE SKY WAVES -- 4. THE ROOTS OF THE MODAL EQUATION! -- 5. COMMENTS ON A MORE ACCURATE FORM OF THE MODE EQUATION -- 6. THE HEIGHT-GAIN FUNCTIONS -- 7. THE EXCITATION OF V.L.F. MODES -- 8. DISCUSSION OF THE EARTH DETACHED MODE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter VIII. PROPAGATION IN STRATIFIED MAGNETO-PLASMA MEDIA -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF A PLASMA -- 3. THE FIELD EQUATIONS -- 4. REFLECTION COEFFICIENT FOR A PLANE BOUNDARY BETWEEN FREE SPACE AND PLASMA -- 5. REFLECTION FROM A STRATIFIED PLASMA -- 6. ARBITRARY INCLINATION OF MAGNETIC FIELD. , 7. REFLECTION FROM A HOMOGENEOUS PLASMA WITH ARBITRARY MAGNETIC FIELD -- 8. DERIVATION OF APPROXIMATE REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS -- 9. THE MODE SERIES FOR AN ANISOTROPIC IONOSPHERE -- 10. EFFECT OF EARTH CURVATURE -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- REFERENCES -- Chapter IX. V.L.F. PROPAGATION-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. APPROXIMATE SOLUTIONS OF THE MODE EQUATION -- 3. MEASURED FIELD STRENGTH VS. DISTANCE DATA AT V.L.F. -- 4. MEASURED PHASE CHARACTERISTICS OF V.L.F. CARRIERS -- 5. MEASUREMENTS OF DIURNAL PHASE SHIFTS AT V.L.F. -- 6. SFERICS AND MODE THEORY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter X. E.L.F. (EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY) PROPAGATION-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BASIC THEORETICAL MODEL -- 3. ANTIPODAL EFFECTS -- 4. EARTH-FLATTENING APPROXIMATION -- 5. DISTANCE AND FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE -- 6. NEAR FIELD BEHAVIOR -- 7. EFFECT OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD -- 8. EFFECT OF AN INHOMOGENEOUS ATMOSPHERE -- 9. PROPAGATION OF E.L.F. PULSES -- 10. INTERPRETATION OF HEPBURN'S EXPERIMENTAL DATA -- 11. INFLUENCE OF HORIZONTAL CURRENTS -- Appendix: SURFACE IMPEDANCE OF A SPHERICALLY STRATIFIED CONDUCTOR -- REFERENCES -- Chapter XI. ASYMPTOTIC DEVELOPMENT FOR GUIDED WAVE PROPAGATION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FORMULATION OF PROBLEM -- 3. THE COMPLEX INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION -- 4. THE MODE REPRESENTATION -- 5. RAY THEORY AND SADDLE POINT APPROXIMATIONS -- 6. RELATION TO GEOMETRICAL OPTICS -- 7. TREATMENT AT THE CAUSTIC -- 8. APPLICATIONS TO TROPOSPHERIC PROPAGATION -- 9. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter XII. SUPERREFRACTION AND THE THEORY OF TROPOSPHERIC DUCTING -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FORMULATION -- 3. THE ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTION -- 4. THE SPECIAL CASE OF A NORMAL ATMOSPHERE -- 5. REDUCTION TO RAY THEORY FOR "NORMAL" ATMOSPHERE -- 6. EXTENSION OF THEORY TO INCLUDE SUPERREFRACTION. , 7. REFINEMENTS TO THE ASYMPTOTIC APPROXIMATIONS -- 8. A FEW QUANTITATIVE RESULTS FOR TROPOSPHERIC DUCTING -- 9. REDUCTION TO THE PHASE INTEGRAL FORM -- 10. THE MODIFIED INDEX OF REFRACTION METHOD -- REFERENCES -- Chapter XIII. APPENDIX-SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL -- 1. Influence of the Lower Ionosphere on Propagation of VLF Waves to Great Distances] -- 2. VLF Mode Problem for an Anisotropie Curved Ionosphere -- 3. Reflection of VLF Radio Waves from an Inhomogeneous Ionosphere. Part I Exponentially Varying Isotropìe Model -- 4. Reflection of VLF Radio Waves from an Inhomogeneous Ionosphere. Part II. Perturbed Exponential Model -- 5. Reflection of VLF Radio Waves from an Inhomogeneous Ionosphere. Part III. Exponential Model with Hyperbolic Transition -- 6. Some Remarks on Mode and Ray Theories of VLF Radio Propagation -- 7. Two-Dimensional Treatment of Mode Theory of the Propagation of VLF Radio Waves -- 8. Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves from a Lossy Magnetoplasma -- 9. A Note on VHF Reflection from a Tropospheric Layer -- 10. Concerning the Mechanism of Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves from an Inhomogeneous Lossy Plasma -- 11. Influence of an Inhomogeneous Ground on the Propagation of VLF Radio Waves in the Earth-ionosphere Waveguide -- 12. Propagation in a Model Terrestrial Waveguide of Nonuniform Height: Theory and Experiment -- 13. Transverse Propagation of Waveguide Modes in a Cylindrically Stratified Magnetoplasma -- 14. Cavity Resonator Modes in a Cylindrically Stratified Magnetoplasma -- 15. Electromagnetic Propagation in an Idealized Earth Crust Waveguide -- 16. Illumination of an Inhomogeneous Spherical Earth by an LF Plane Electromagnetic Wave -- 17. Radiation from Dipoles in an Idealized Jungle Environment. , 18. Comments on a Paper "A Numerical Investigation of Classical Approximations Used in VLF Propagation" by R. A. Papperty E. E. Gossard, and I. J. Rothmuller -- 19. On the Calculation of Mode Conversion at a Graded Height Change in the Earth-ionosphere Waveguide at VLF -- Errata and Addenda -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.