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If the speed is less near the ground than it is at higher altitude, then the top of the

wavefront moves ahead of the bottom, and the wavefront appears to "keel over",

causing a downward bend of its velocity vector.

Radio waves exhibit the same identical phenomenon in the presence of the typical gradient

of atmospheric refractivity with altitude.

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