This book collects most of the talks and poster presentations presented at the "Optical Turbulence Astronomy meets Meteorology" international conference held on 1518 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Optical 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.
