Optical turbulence : astronomy meets meteorology: Proceedings of the Optical Turbulence Characterization for Astronomical Applications

This book collects most of the talks and poster presentations presented at the ""Optical Turbulence — Astronomy meets Meteorology"" international conference held on 15–18 September, 2008 at Nymphes Bay, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. The meeting aimed to deal with one of the major causes of wavefront perturbations limiting the astronomical high-angular-resolution observations from the ground. The uniqueness of this meeting has been the effort to attack this topic in asynergic and multidisciplinary approach promoting constructive discussions between the actors of this science — the astronomers, meteorologists, physicistsof the atmosphere and the experts in adaptive optics and interferometry techniques whose main goal is to correct, in real-time, the wavefront perturbationsinduced by atmospheric turbulence to restore at the telescope foci the best available image quality. INDICE: Optical Turbulence in High Angular Resolution Techniques in Astronomy (J M Beckers); Optical Turbulence Profiles at CTIO from a 12-Element LunarScintillometer (P Hickson.); High Resolution SLODAR Measurements on Mauna Kea(T Butterley.); How We Can Understand the Antarctic Atmospheric? (J W V Storey.); The Paranal Surface Layar (J Melnick.); Introduction to Data Assimilationin Meteorology (P Brousseau & L Auger); The Mauna Kea Weather Center: A Case for Custom Seeing Forecasts (T Cherubini.); Dealing with Turbulence: MCAO Experience and Beyond (R Ragazzoni.); Future-Look Science Operations for the LBT (R F Green); Surface Layer SLODAR (J Osborn.); and other papers.

• ISBN: 978-1-84816-485-7
• Editorial: Imperial College
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 416
• Fecha Publicación: 14/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés