Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2004 · 11 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesEarth SciencesPhysicsAtmospheric RadiationOpticsPhotonicsAtmospheric OpticsLaser PhysicsSolar RadiationTurbulenceTurbulent FlowCn2 ProfilingIrradiation ConditionsIrradiation EffectsSimplified ModelsTurbulence Characterization
We evaluate a simple model for predicting and understanding the structural behavior of Cn2 for a specific location, date, time, and given environmental parameters. This model is compared with Cn2 data taken at the Chesapeake Bay Detachment of the Naval Research Laboratory in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. This simplified model predicts and explains the fluctuation in Cn2 reasonably well, and also shows that Cn2 is a strong function of solar irradiation.