Boundary-layer seeing measurements in the Canadian High Arctic

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7733, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Hickson, Paul ^a   Carlberg, Ray ^b   Gagne, Ronald ^a   Pfrommer, Thomas ^a   Racine, René ^c   Schöck, Matthias ^d,e   Steinbring, Eric ^e   Travouillon, Tony ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Boundary layer; Optical turbulence; Seeing; Site characterization

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; HIGH ARCTIC; OPTICAL TURBULENCE; POLAR ENVIRONMENTS; SEEING; SITE CHARACTERIZATION;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77958130345     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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