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Table 2 Radio wave attenuation at discrete frequencies obtained from conductivity profile and measured experimentally

From: Vertical profile of atmospheric conductivity that matches Schumann resonance observations

Kind of data

〈Im(ν)〉

α

dB/1000 km

Im(ν)

Day

α Day

dB/1000 km

Im(ν)

Night

α Night

dB/1000 km

f = 76 Hz model

0.86

1.17

0.96

1.31

0.75

1.02

f = 76 Hz experiment (Williams et al. 2006)

1.08

1.33

0.82

f = 82 Hz model

0.92

1.25

1.01

1.38

0.79

1.08

f = 82 Hz experiment (Yang Pasko 2005; Zhou et al. 2013)

1.25