Site survey for a large solar telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3352, Issue , 1998, Pages 858-867

  Beckers, Jacques M ^a   Mason, James ^a  

^a NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Scintillation; Seeing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; OBSERVATORIES; PHOTODIODES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOLAR RADIATION; SURVEYS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE CONSTANT; FRIED PARAMETER; LARGE SOLAR TELESCOPE; SOLAR SCINTILLOMETRY; VALLEY-HUFNAGEL DISTRIBUTION;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0032404246     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.319315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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