Study on scintillation of radio wave propagation through the ionospheric irregularities

The parabolic equation which the radio wave propagation through the ionospheric irregularities was established in this paper. The Rytov and Markov approximation method was used to solve it. Derived the scintillation index of radio wave through the ionosphere. And the results was analyzed by used the power-law spectrum. The result shows that the high or low of the radio frequency, the thickness of the electron density irregularity, the inner and the outer scale, the spectral index and the variance of the fluctuation of the electron density are all have a effect on the scintillation index of radio wave final, the theoretical results of the scintillation index were compared with the experimental one.