Understanding the physics of optical deep turbulence at the Earth's boundary layer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8520, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Farrell, Thomas C ^a   Sanchez, Darryl ^a   Smith, Julie ^a   Holzman, Jason ^a   Kelly, Patrick ^a   Brennan, Terry ^b   Gallegos, Anita ^c   Oesch, Denis ^c   Kyrazis, Demos ^d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Optical Sciences Company   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d R Cubed Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric propagation; Boundary layer modeling; Deep turbulence; Micro meteorology; Surface layer modeling

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; BOUNDARY LAYER MODELS; CO-LOCATED; FIELD CAMPAIGN; GROUND CONDITIONS; HARTMANN WAVE FRONT SENSORS; INNER SCALE; INPUT PARAMETER; KEY PARAMETERS; MICRO METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL TURBULENCE; SURFACE LAYERS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84872979117     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.931432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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