Karl Rawer
Karl Maria Alois Rawer
Biography
After studies of mathematics and physics in
Rawer's code assumes zig-zag paths between Earth and ionosphere.[4][5] Monthly predictions take account of day-to-day variations.[6] Long term changes from solar cycles is taken account of by Wolfgang Gleißberg´s prediction method.[7]
After the war Yves Rocard, then director of French Navy research, was impressed by Rawer's code. He engaged him as "directeur scientifique" (1946–56) of his newly founded "Service de Prevision Ionospherique".[8]
Between 1956–69, Rawer, serving in Germany as director of "Ionosphären-Institut Breisach" switched to space research. With his team he participated in the first French scientific rocket launch 1954 in the
From 1958 to 1964, he was "professeur associe" at the
He was actively engaged in the
Rawer was
References
- ^ Karl Rawer: space research and international cooperation
- ISBN 978-3-451-08226-9.
- ^ Rawer, Karl (1951). Ausbreitungsvorhersage für Kurzwellen mit Hilfe von Ionosphärenbeobachtungen: Herrn Jonathan Zenneck zum 80. Geburtstage. Hirzel. p. 154ff.
- ^ Rawer, Karl (1956). The ionosphere: its significance for geophysics and radio communications. Translated from [sic] the German by Ludwig Katz. F. Ungar. p. 216ff.
- ^ Rawer, Karl (1963). "Propagation of decameter waves (H.F.band)". Meteorological and Aeronomical Influences on Radio Wave Propagation. Oxford: Pergamon Press. p. 216ff.
- ^ Rawer, Karl; Suchy, Kurt (1966). "Radio Observations of the Ionosphere". Handbuch Der Physik: Encyclopedia of Physics. Vol. 49/1. Springer.
- ^ Die Häufigkeit der Sonnenflecken. Akademie Verlag. 1952.
- ISBN 978-2-246-41121-5.
- ISBN 978-94-017-3665-7.
- ^ Rawer, Karl (1976). "Some results of the AEROS missions". Space Research XVI. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
- ^ Piggott, W.R.; Rawer, Karl (1961). URSI handbook of ionogram interpretation and reduction. Elsevier Pub. Co.
- ^ Notice from Badische Zeitung, April 19, 2018.(in German)
Sources
- Karl Rawer: "Meine Kinder umkreisen die Erde" (autobiography). Herder, Freiburg i. Brsg., 159 S. 1986, ISBN 3-451-08226-8
- Bodo W. Reinisch: "Karl Rawer´s lfe and the history of the IRI". Adv. Space Res.34, 1845R 2004
- Dieter Bilitza: "35 Years of International Reference Ionosphere - Karl Rawer´s legacy". Adv. Radio Sci.2, 283, 2004