Atmospheric research and electromagnetic telecommunication — Part II: Telecommunication-oriented research programs in fiscal year 1964

The concluding portion of this two-part article presents an analysis of telecommunication-oriented atmospheric research in the United States for the fiscal year 1964 For a research program to be considered an atmospheric science program, we have required that physical information about the atmosphere, rather than just the electrical channel characteristics of the transmission medium, be obtained. Propagation studies that do not give physical information about the atmosphere have therefore been excluded. Examples of studies excluded are compilations of statistics of transmission loss, phase, or bandwidth, unless these are used to deduce physical information about the atmosphere. In addition, for a research program to qualify for inclusion in this analysis it must be, in the view of the reporting organization, directed toward understanding atmospheric effects on electromagnetic propagation rather than toward one of the other objectives of the Interdepartmental Committee for Atmospheric Sciences (ICAS), such as “scientific understanding.”