Modeling and measurements of atmospheric optical turbulence over land

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1288-1295

  Hutt, D L ^a,b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

^b Defence Research Establishment Atlantic   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCINTILLATION;

MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 0032625313     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602188     Document Type: Article

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