Spherical and Plane Waves Propagation through a Realistic Turbulent Marine Layer

In this paper, the impact of a realistic turbulent medium obtained from fluid mechanics equations on radiowave propagation is studied. The realistic medium contains more structured variations of refractive index than the one usually generated from Gaussian-like spectra. The impact on propagation is illustrated by comparing the effect on sources presenting both a spherical and a plane wavefront. These results highlight the impact of the localised atmospheric structure that could reveal an underestimation of the turbulence impact when obtained via the commonly used Gaussian-like spectra.