Statistics and analysis of high-altitude wind above the Canary Islands observatories

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 627-631

  Chueca, S ^a   Garcia Lorenzo B ^a   Munoz Tunon C ^a   Fuensalida, J J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: adaptive optics; Site testing; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; QUALITY CONTROL; SITE SELECTION;

CANARY ISLANDS; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; HIGH ALTITUDE WINDS; INSTRUMENTATION: ADAPTIVE OPTICS; MEAN VALUES; PRESSURE LEVEL; SITE-TESTING; STATISTICS AND ANALYSIS; TENERIFE; WIND SPEED;

OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 18244424860     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07523.x     Document Type: Article

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