Preliminary DIMM and MASS Nighttime Seeing Measurements at PEARL, in the Canadian High Arctic
Results of deploying a Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM) and a DIMM combined with a Multi-Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS/DIMM) are reported for campaigns in 2011 and 2012 on the roof of the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL). This facility is on a 610-m-high ridge...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1305.5807 2023-05-15T15:06:22+02:00 Preliminary DIMM and MASS Nighttime Seeing Measurements at PEARL, in the Canadian High Arctic Steinbring, Eric Millar-Blanchaer, Max Ngan, Wayne Murowinski, Rick Leckie, Brian Carlberg, Ray 2013 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1305.5807 https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5807 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/671482 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1305.5807 https://doi.org/10.1086/671482 2022-04-01T13:29:21Z Results of deploying a Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM) and a DIMM combined with a Multi-Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS/DIMM) are reported for campaigns in 2011 and 2012 on the roof of the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL). This facility is on a 610-m-high ridge at latitude 80 degrees N, near the Eureka weatherstation on Ellesmere Island, Canada. The median seeing at 8-m elevation is 0.85 arcsec or better based on DIMM data alone, but is dependent on wind direction, and likely includes a component due to the PEARL building itself. Results with MASS/DIMM yield a median seeing less than 0.76 arcsec. A semi-empirical model of seeing versus ground wind speed is introduced which allows agreement between these datasets, and with previous boundary-layer profiling by lunar scintillometry from the same location. This further suggests that best 20 percentile seeing reaches 0.53 arcsec, of which typically 0.30 arcsec is due to the free atmosphere. Some discussion for guiding future seeing instrumentation and characterization at this site is provided. : 16 pages, 11 figures, accepted for PASP Text Arctic Ellesmere Island DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Ellesmere Island Canada Eureka ENVELOPE(-85.940,-85.940,79.990,79.990) |
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Results of deploying a Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM) and a DIMM combined with a Multi-Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS/DIMM) are reported for campaigns in 2011 and 2012 on the roof of the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL). This facility is on a 610-m-high ridge at latitude 80 degrees N, near the Eureka weatherstation on Ellesmere Island, Canada. The median seeing at 8-m elevation is 0.85 arcsec or better based on DIMM data alone, but is dependent on wind direction, and likely includes a component due to the PEARL building itself. Results with MASS/DIMM yield a median seeing less than 0.76 arcsec. A semi-empirical model of seeing versus ground wind speed is introduced which allows agreement between these datasets, and with previous boundary-layer profiling by lunar scintillometry from the same location. This further suggests that best 20 percentile seeing reaches 0.53 arcsec, of which typically 0.30 arcsec is due to the free atmosphere. Some discussion for guiding future seeing instrumentation and characterization at this site is provided. : 16 pages, 11 figures, accepted for PASP |
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Preliminary DIMM and MASS Nighttime Seeing Measurements at PEARL, in the Canadian High Arctic |
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Preliminary DIMM and MASS Nighttime Seeing Measurements at PEARL, in the Canadian High Arctic |
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Preliminary DIMM and MASS Nighttime Seeing Measurements at PEARL, in the Canadian High Arctic |
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preliminary dimm and mass nighttime seeing measurements at pearl, in the canadian high arctic |
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