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• Handbook – RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION INFORMATION FOR PREDICTIONS FOR EARTH-TO-SPACE PATH COMMUNICATIONS – 1996
• PREFACE
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1 Relationship of this Handbook to Recommendations of ITU-R Study Group 3
  • 1.2 Application of the Earth-space Handbook
• CHAPTER 2 – PROPAGATION EFFECTS OF THE TROPOSPHERE AND THE IONOSPHERE
• CHAPTER 3 – PROPAGATION LOSS
  • 3.1 Attenuation due to atmospheric gases
  • 3.2 Attenuation by precipitation and clouds
  • 3.3 Diversity and spatial features of rain
  • 3.4 Characteristics of precipitation events
  • 3.5 Sand and dust effects
• CHAPTER 4 – SKY NOISE TEMPERATURE CONTRIBUTIONS
  • 4.1 Atmospheric noise temperature effects on Earth-space paths
  • 4.2 Galactic and other extraterrestrial noise sources
  • 4.3 Noise from the surface of the Earth and man-made sources
  • 4.4 Example problem
• CHAPTER 5 – PATH DEPOLARIZATION
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Relation between depolarization and attenuation
  • 5.3 Dependence of XPD and XPI on physical processes
  • 5.4 Data relevant to cross-polarization compensation
  • 5.5 Incorporation of path XPD into system XPI
  • 5.6 Example calculation of path XPD
• CHAPTER 6 – CLEAR AIR EFFECTS
  • 6.1 Loss due to defocusing and wave-front incoherence
  • 6.2 Scintillation and multipath effects
  • 6.3 Propagation delays
  • 6.4 Angle of arrival
• CHAPTER 7 – TRANSIONOSPHERIC PROPAGATION
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Total Electron Content (TEC)
  • 7.3 Effects due to background ionization
  • 7.4 Effects due to ionization irregularities
  • 7.5 Conclusion
• CHAPTER 8 – SURFACE REFLECTIONS AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS (OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO MOBILE-SATELLITE SYSTEMS)
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Effects of the Earth's surface
  • 8.3 Local environmental effects
• CHAPTER 9 – COMBINED EFFECTS MODELLING
  • 9.1 Equiprobable summation
  • 9.2 Convolution
  • 9.3 Temporal segmentation
  • 9.4 Root-Square summing
  • 9.5 Example