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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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SUMMARY:Astronomical Site's Characterization in the era of Extremely Large 
 Telescopes: an overview of atmospheric turbulence monitoring for Adaptive 
 Optics performance simulations
DESCRIPTION:Astronomical Site's Characterization in the era of Extremely La
 rge Telescopes: an overview of atmospheric turbulence monitoring for Adapt
 ive Optics performance simulations\nDr. Gianluca Lombardi\n\nIn the past y
 ears, intensive Site Characterization campaigns have been  performed to ch
 ose the sites for the future giant ELTs. Various  atmospheric turbulence p
 rofilers with different resolution and sensed  altitude ranges have been u
 sed, as well as climatological tools and  satellite data analysis. Mixing 
 long term statistics at low altitude  resolution with high resolution data
  collected during short term  campaigns allows to produce the reference pr
 ofiles as input to the  Adaptive Optics (AO) instrument performance estima
 tors. In this talk I will perform a brief review of the principal and most
   used instruments and tools in order to give to the audience a panorama  
 of the work and the efforts to monitor the atmospheric turbulence for  ast
 ronomical purposes.
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