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Book SynopsisThis book collects most of the talks and poster presentations presented at the 'Optical Turbulence — Astronomy meets Meteorology' international conference held on 15-18 September, 2008 at Nymphes Bay, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. The meeting aimed to deal with one of the major causes of wavefront perturbations limiting the astronomical high-angular-resolution observations from the ground. The uniqueness of this meeting has been the effort to attack this topic in a synergic and multidisciplinary approach promoting constructive discussions between the actors of this science — the astronomers, meteorologists, physicists of the atmosphere and the experts in adaptive optics and interferometry techniques whose main goal is to correct, in real-time, the wavefront perturbations induced by atmospheric turbulence to restore at the telescope foci the best available image quality.
Table of ContentsOptical Turbulence; Site Testing; Optical Turbulence Surveys; General Circulation Atmospheric Models (GCM); Mesoscale Atmospheric Models; Instrumentation for Optical Turbulence Characterization; Scinitillation; Optical Turbulence Forecast; Turbulence Closure Schemes for Night Stable Conditions; Data Assimilation for GCM and Mesoscale Models; Operational Models; Adaptive Optics and Optical Turbulence: Simulations with Analytic and Monte Marlo Models; Point Spread Function (PSF) Morphology in Wide and Narrow Field Observations; Multi Conjugated Adaptive Optics, Ground Layer Adaptive Optics (GLAO); Laser Guide Stars Versus Turbulence; Flexible-Scheduling: Strategies, Present Systems, Lessons Learnt, Quantification of the Scheduling Efficiency.
