Electromagnetic Scintillation Volume II: Weak Scattering

Second volume of series of books dealing with effect of the atmosphere on electromagnetic propagation.

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Twinkling stars are just one example of the phase and amplitude fluctuation of electromagnetic signals that travel through the earth's atmosphere. Collectively these fluctuations are known as scintillation and the study of them have become of greater importance as technologies for sending electromagnetic signals have gained importance. This first in a series of volumes, advancing from simplest to most complex models of electromagnetic propagation through random media, explores the subject with the most elementary description of electromagnetic radiation. Wheelon (Environmental Technology Laboratory of finds that valid descriptions for phase and angle-of-arrival fluctuation are provided by this model. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr Albert D. Wheelon has been a visiting scientist for the past decade at the Environmental Technology Laboratory of NOAA in Boulder, Colorado. He holds a BSc degree in engineering science from Stanford University and a PhD in physics from MIT, where he was a teaching fellow and a research associate in the Research Laboratory for Electronics. He has published thirty papers on radio physics and space technology in learned journals. He has spent his entire career at the frontier of technology. He made important early contributions to ballistic missile and satellite technology at TRW, where he was director of the Radio Physics Laboratory. While in government service, he was responsible for the development and operation of satellite and aircraft reconnaissance systems. He later led the development of communication and scientific satellites at Hughes Aircraft. This firm was a world leader in high technology and he became its CEO in
1986. He has been a visiting professor at MIT and UCLA. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the IEEE and the AIAA. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received several awards for his contributions to technology and national security including the R. V. Jones medal. He is currently a trustee of Cal Tech and the RAND Corporation. He was a member of the Defense Science Board and the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. He has been an advisor to five national scientific laboratories in the United States.