Measurement of Optical Seeing on the High Antarctic Plateau

. Results from the 1995 season of site-testing experiments at the South Pole are presented, in which the seeing was measured using balloon-borne microthermal probes. Our analysis shows a marked division of the atmosphere into two characteristic regions: (i) a highly turbulent boundary layer (0--220...

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Main Authors: Marks Vernin Azouit, R. D. Marks, J. Vernin, M. Azouit, J. F. Manigault, C. Clevelin
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1997
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.27.3724
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mgb/Antbib/aa_balloon.ps.gz