Atmospheric optical turbulence over land in middle east coastal environments: Prediction modeling and measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4070-4079

  Bendersky, Sergey ^a,b   Kopeika, Norman S ^a,b   Blaunstein, Natan ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Dept of Electrooptics Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; WIND;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PATHS; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; OPTICAL TURBULENCE;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 3142765978     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004070     Document Type: Article

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