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名为《看得清楚：大气湍流和折射对地外辐射传播的测量和影响》的教科书。该文本的章节由一系列相关领域的公认领导者贡献，将作为科学家和研究生水平的学生寻求对大气湍流对地球光学天文学影响的基本理解的持久资源。它将借鉴2007年举行的第一届视觉研讨会（SOS）的投入。这项工作的智力价值源于丰富的跨学科交流，这将支持基于对大气介质湍流行为的更充分了解的自适应光学的最佳开发应用的进一步进展。更广泛的影响将通过教育和传播关键信息来减轻湍流产生的干扰，以明确的天文测量。将加强面向不同读者群的努力，开发成本相对较低的基于网络的文本版本，其可得性将在气象和天文界广泛宣传。

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.