(from the article `telecommunications media`) ...body of water, with vapour concentration increasing closer to the surface, can cause a bending of the beam toward the Earth that is much sharper ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/79
guided propagation of radio waves inside a tropospheric radio-duct NOTE - At sufficiently high frequencies, a number of electromagnetic modes of guided propagation can co-exist in the same tropospheric radio-duct. Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=705-05-50