Seeing Clearly: The Measurement and Impacts of Atmospheric Turbulence and Refractivity on the Propagation of Extraterrestrial Radiation

该项目将支持编写和出版一本教科书，题为“看得清楚：大气湍流和折射对地外辐射传播的测量和影响”。“该文本，与章节的贡献，从公认的领导人在一系列相关领域，将作为一个持久的资源，为科学家和研究生水平的学生寻求一个基本的了解大气湍流对地球上的光学天文学的影响。 它将借鉴2007年举行的第一届视觉研讨会（SOS）的成果。这一努力的智力价值来自于丰富的跨学科交流，应支持在更全面地了解大气介质湍流行为的基础上，进一步推进自适应光学的最佳发展应用。更广泛的影响将来自于减轻湍流所需的关键信息的教育和传播。对清晰的天文测量产生了干扰。 将加强努力，争取不同的读者群，开发成本相对较低的网上版本，并在气象和天文学界广泛宣传。

This project will support development and publication of a textbook entitled "Seeing Clearly: The Measurement and Impacts of Atmospheric Turbulence and Refractivity on the Propagation of Extraterrestrial Radiation." The text, with chapter contributions from acknowledged leaders in an array of relevant fields, will serve as a lasting resource for scientists and graduate-level students seeking a fundamental understanding of the impacts of atmospheric turbulence on Earth-based optical astronomy. It will draw upon input gained at the first Symposium on Seeing (SOS) held in 2007.The intellectual merit of this effort derives from an enriched interdisciplinary exchange that should support further advances in optimal development application of adaptive optics based upon a fuller knowledge of turbulent behavior of the atmospheric medium.Broader impacts will come through education and dissemination of key information needed to mitigate turbulence-generated interference with clear astronomical measurements. Efforts to reach a diverse readership will be enhanced development of a relatively low-cost web-based version of the text whose availability will be broadly advertised across the meteorological and astronomical communities.