Abstract
The propagation of radio waves in the sea is of great importance in many practical applications. Considerable effort and speculation have thus been devoted to establish the theoretical foundation for such problem. The method used for solution is essentially based on calculating the electromagnetic field due to vertical magnetic dipole buried in stratified media. In this paper closed-form expressions for the far field of a vertical magnetic dipole embedded below the sea surface are obtained by evaluating the Sommerfeld-type integrals with the aid of complex image theory.