Long-term experiment VERTURM (vertical turbulence measurements): comparison of measurements and modeling of the vertical distribution of optical turbulence Cn2 in the surface layer

Detlev Sprung; Peter Grossmann; Erik Sucher; Alexander M. J. van Eijk; Karin Stein

doi:10.1117/12.2279427

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18 October 2017 Long-term experiment VERTURM (vertical turbulence measurements): comparison of measurements and modeling of the vertical distribution of optical turbulence C_n² in the surface layer

Detlev Sprung, Peter Grossmann, Erik Sucher, Alexander M. J. van Eijk, Karin Stein

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Proceedings Volume 10425, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XX; 1042508 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2279427
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2017, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

Operation and design of electro-optical systems are affected by atmospheric turbulence, quantified by refractive structure function parameter C_n². The long-term VerTurM experiment at a rural site in Northwestern Germany served to collect an extended dataset of vertical profiles of C_n² values up to 64 meters, completed by a characterization of the surface layer meteorology. A micrometeorological model in terms of the Monin-Obukhov similarity theory (MOST) was developed to predict the values of C_n² and its results were compared to the measurements.

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Detlev Sprung, Peter Grossmann, Erik Sucher, Alexander M. J. van Eijk, and Karin Stein "Long-term experiment VERTURM (vertical turbulence measurements): comparison of measurements and modeling of the vertical distribution of optical turbulence C_n² in the surface layer", Proc. SPIE 10425, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XX, 1042508 (18 October 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2279427

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