Low altitude atmospheric turbulence characteristics at Mt. Wilson observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 803-814

  Short, Nicholas ^a   Fitelson, Walt ^a   Hale, David ^a   Townes, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric Turbulence; Kolmogorov; Temperature Fluctuations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; CORRELATION DETECTORS; CORRELATION METHODS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOCOUPLES; VISIBILITY;

TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 0038399925     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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