TMT studies on the influence of short term changes of local thermodynamic conditions on the seeing.: CFD vs. observations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Els, S G ^a   Vogiatzis, K ^b  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical site testing; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Seeing; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TELESCOPES; TURBULENCE;

ASTRONOMICAL SITE TESTING; ATMOSPHERIC SEEING CONDITIONS; GROUND LAYERS; SITE TESTING PROGRAM;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 33748993985     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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