Abstract
A simple method for obtaining the reflection and transmission coefficients and fields for an electromagnetic wave propagating vertically in a horizontally stratified ionosphere is introduced. The ionosphere is divided into a great number of thin layers, and the boundary conditions of the electric and magnetic fields are applied at all layer interfaces. A recursive formalism is derived, which gives the altitude dependence of the reflection and inverse transmission coefficient matrices starting from the top of the layer. It is then shown how these results can be used in calculating the height dependence of a wave corresponding to any incident polarization. Test results are also presented in order to demonstrate the applicability of the procedure.
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