Statistics of weather data, environmental data and the seeing of the Subaru Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 207-217

  Miyashita, Akihiko ^a   Takato, Naruhisa ^a   Usuda, Tomonori ^a   Uraguchi, Fumihiro ^a   Ogasawara, Ryusuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Clear sky ratios; Reflective index; Seeing; Subaru telescope; Weather data

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLEAR SKY RATIOS; REFLECTIVE INDEX; SEEING; SUBARU TELESCOPE; WEATHER DATA;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444221740     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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