Study on the Propagation Property of Radio Wave in $F_{1}$ Layer of the Ionosphere

In this paper, FDTD method is used to study the propagation property of electromagnetic waves in the F
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layer of ionosphere in which the distribution of plasmas is known. All the important parameters about the ionosphere used in this paper are got from International Reference Ionosphere 2016. The results are in good agreement with theoretical solutions in the similar studies, indicating that the proposed method is accurate and efficient in predicting the wave propagation in ionospheric plasmas.