A recent measurement campaign at Vandenberg Air Force Base involved taking simultaneous observations with a VHF radar and high-data-rate (1-micron diameter) platinum wires to sense optical turbulence (from temperature fluctuations). The radar observations produce profiles of the refractive index structure parameter, the turbulent kinetic energy, the eddy dissipation rate, the inner scale, the outer scale of turbulence, and wind speed and direction to an altitude of 20 km AGL. The ...
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