On coupled fields in stratified plasmas with tensor pressure perturbations — II

This paper deals with small-amplitude waves, described by Maxwell's equations and single-fluid hydrodynamics, in horizontally stratified, continuously varying plasmas with anisotropic electron pressure perturbations. A set of coupled wave equations in first-order matrix form, which describes two different types of obliquely propagating horizontally polarized transverse waves, is treated by the method of Clemmow and Heading. It is then transformed by Heading's method into a form which is valid throughout reflection regions, and from which a pair of second-order coupled wave equation in Fösterling's form follows.