Numerical weather forecast at Mauna Kea astronomical observatory by Subaru Telescope supercomputer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4844, Issue , 2002, Pages 493-500

  Ogasawara, Ryusuke ^a   Miyashita, Akihiko ^a   Kosugi, George ^a   Takata, Tadafumi ^a   Sekiguchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Businger, Steven ^c   Cherubini, Tiziana ^c   Daida, Sean ^d   McLaren, Robert ^d   Simons, Doug ^e   Kawarai, Kenji ^b   Kawai, Atsushi ^b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

MM5; Seeing; Subaru telescope; Supercomputer; Temperature control; Weather forecast

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATORIES; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TELESCOPES; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0038304183     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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