Optical Turbulence: Astronomy Meets Meteorology - Proceedings Of The Optical Turbulence Characterization For Astronomical Applications

This 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 multidisciplinar...