Title
Long-term experiment VERTURM (vertical turbulence measurements): Comparison of measurements and modeling of the vertical distribution of optical turbulence Cn 2 in the surface layer
Author
Sprung, D.
Grossmann, P.
Sucher, E.
van Eijk, A.M.J.
Stein, K.
Contributor
Gladysz, S. (editor)
Stein, K.U. (editor)
Publication year
2017
Abstract
Operation and design of electro-optical systems are affected by atmospheric turbulence, quantified by refractive structure function parameter Cn 2. The long-term VerTurM experiment at a rural site in Northwestern Germany served to collect an extended dataset of vertical profiles of Cn 2 values up to 64 meters, completed by a characterization of the surface layer meteorology. A micrometeorological model in terms of the Monin-Obukhov similarity theory (MOST) was developed to predict the values of Cn 2 and its results were compared to the measurements. © Copyright 2017 SPIE. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Subject
2015 Observation, Weapon & Protection Systems
ED - Electronic Defence
TS - Technical Sciences
Atmospheric surface layer
Micrometeorological model
Optical turbulence
Vertical profile
Adaptive optics
Adaptive systems
Atmospheric structure
Atmospheric turbulence
Atmospheric surface layers
Comparison of measurements
Electro-optical systems
Monin-Obukhov similarity theory
Optical turbulence
Turbulence measurements
Vertical distributions
Vertical profile
Atmospheric thermodynamics
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TNO identifier
784902
Publisher
SPIE
ISBN
9781510613140
ISSN
0277-786X
Source
Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XX 2017. 13 September 2017 through 14 September 2017, 10425
Series
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Article number
1042508
Document type
conference paper