Bibcode
Castro-Almazán, J. A.; García-Lorenzo, B.; Fuensalida, J. J.
Referencia bibliográfica
Optical Turbulence: Astronomy Meets Meteorology, Proceedings of the Astronomy Meets Meteorology, Proceedings of the Optical Turbulence Characterization for Astronomical Applications Sardinia, Italy, 15 - 18 September 2008, edited by Elena Masciadri (Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy) & Marc Sarazin (European Southern Observatory, Germany), pp. 350-357 (2010).
Fecha de publicación:
9
2009
Número de citas
2
Número de citas referidas
1
Descripción
The proper characterisation of the turbulence structure in an
astronomical site requires an statistical study of the refractive-index
structure constant Cn2(h). Our team is monitoring
the Cn2(h) profiles since 2002 at the Teide and
Roque de los Muchachos observatories (Canary Islands, Spain) with the
g-SCIDAR technique. We have compared the turbulence profiles obtained
with the radiosonde simultaneous profiles and with the NCEP I reanalysis
maps at different levels. We show that turbulence measured at both
observatories (being at 160km distant) correlate with the radiosonde
data and may be explained through the atmospheric conditions in a
synoptical scale. Hence, the statistical predominance of synoptical
scaled phenomena may explain the similarity found in the monthly average
profiles obtained at both observatories.