Overwater optical scintillation measurements during MAGAT-1980
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Authors
Crittenden, Eugene Casson
Milne, Edmund Alexander
Cooper, Alfred William
Rodeback, George Wayne
Kalmbach, Sydney Hobart
Subjects
Turbulence, Refraction structure constant, Scintillation
Advisors
Date of Issue
1980-08
Date
1980-08
Publisher
Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Overwater measurements have been made of the turbulence
structure constant for index of refraction, C^^ , by means of
scintillation, for comparison with predictions of C^'^ based
on meteorological measurements carried out at the same time,
during the "Monterey Aerosol Generation and Transport"
(MAGAT-8O) experiment, 27 April to 9 May, 198O. Scintillation
was chosen as the optical m.easurement because it gives heaviest
weight to points on the optical path near the center of
the path, m.inimizing the shoreline influence. The overwater
path length was 13.3 km. The light source was a 10.6 micrometer
CO2 laser. This combination of range and wavelength
was adequate to avoid saturation effects.
Type
Technical Report
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Physics
Chemistry
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS-61-80-018
Sponsors
The work reported herein was supported in part by the Naval Environmental Research Facility, Monterey, California.
Funder
N6685680WR80059
Format
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.