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
conference paper
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)
Topics
Atmospheric surface layerMicrometeorological modelOptical turbulenceVertical profileAdaptive opticsAdaptive systemsAtmospheric structureAtmospheric turbulenceAtmospheric surface layersComparison of measurementsElectro-optical systemsMonin-Obukhov similarity theoryOptical turbulenceTurbulence measurementsVertical distributionsVertical profileAtmospheric thermodynamics
TNO Identifier
784902
ISSN
0277786X
ISBN
9781510613140
Publisher
SPIE
Article nr.
1042508
Source title
Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XX 2017. 13 September 2017 through 14 September 2017
Editor(s)
Gladysz S.
Stein K.U.
Stein K.U.
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