Seeing, outer scale of optical turbulence, and coherence outer scale at different astronomical sites using instruments on meteorological balloons

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 422, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1123-1127

  Abahamid, A ^a   Vernin, J ^b   Benkhaldoun, Z ^a   Jabiri, A ^a   Azouit, M ^b   Agabi, A ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric effects; Balloons; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPACE TELESCOPES; THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; GENERALIZED SEEING MODEL (GSM); OPTICAL TURBULENCE; SURFACE LAYER CONTRIBUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 3442882902     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20040215     Document Type: Article

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