High resolution remote sensing of the atmospheric boundary layer over Antarctica

• Main Author: Bonner, Colin
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UNSW, Sydney 2017
• Subjects: boundary layer; Sodar; Antarctica; remote sensing; seeing; Antarctic; Dome Fuji; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/58362; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/709f6bb3-b9e0-47f6-be75-d76f9489ac46/download; https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/19804

At altitudes of up to 4100m, the Domes of the Antarctic plateau provide unique opportunities for ground-based astronomy. In addition to excellent atmospheric windows and extended periods of darkness, the Domes exhibit extremely favourable distributions of atmospheric turbulence: nearly all the turbu...