Title : 
A summary of the major global 3-D FDTD modeling capabilities to-date
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Global three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) models of the Earth-ionosphere waveguide first appeared in the literature a decade ago. Over the past 10+ years, many advances have expanded the capabilities of these models and broadened their applicability. The capabilities are summarized in this Paper.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Earth-ionosphere waveguide; ionospheric techniques; Earth-ionosphere waveguide; global three-dimensional finite-difference domain; major global 3-D FDTD modeling capabilities; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Finite difference methods; Ionosphere; Solid modeling; Stochastic processes; Time-domain analysis;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computational Electromagnetics (ICCEM), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Hong Kong
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/COMPEM.2015.7052542