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Development of Analytical Techniques for Wave Propagation Over Large Rough Surfaces Ramakrishna Janaswamy, Professor 215-D Marcus Hall, Department of Electrical Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 Phone: (413) 545-0937, Fax: (413)545-4611, email: janaswamy@ecs.umass.edu Grant Number: N00014-02-1-0873 LONG TERM GOALS The long terms goals of the project are to develop analytical or efficient numerical schemes for determining the RF signal received over a rough ocean surface and in atmospheric ducting conditions. OBJECTIVES The objectives of the proposed work are to develop techniques for treating radiowave propagation over an electrically large rough surface. Both analytical and numerical techniques were looked at in this project. APPROACH One graduate Ph.D. student, Zhiguo Lai, was fully supported through the grant to help carry out the current research work. He is expected to complete his PhD by January 2007. Significant advances have been made in understanding the basic phenomena by means of experimental investigations of electromagnetic scattering from the ocean surface [1, 2] and in controlled wave tank experiments [3, 4]. Meanwhile a large number of publications on the theoretical treatment of the general problem are available in literature [5, 6]. However the theory is still far from completely developed as almost all the existing scattering models are only valid for small roughness and most of them are expected to fail at low grazing incidence. Rigorous numerical methods have been widely used over the past several decades to overcome the limitations of analytical theories and to provide validation for approximate scattering models [7, 8]. For one-dimensional problems, available computational resources now allow non-gr