Depolarization by Backscattering of Radio Waves at the Atmosphere Inhomogeneities

Wave depolarization by the atmosphere radio profiling. Relation of main and cross polarization field constituents in case of scattering at dielectric permittivity fluctuations is examined in this paper. Relation q=E_sperp(thetas,phi)/E_spar(thetas,phi) depends on the scattering direction only, and doesn´t depend of distribution epsiv(x, y, z) in the scattering area V (x, y, z). For radar sounding systems the measured relation E_sperp/E_spar can obtain values near -20 dB in the case of antennas directional diagrams mismatch or antennas site separation in the observation plane