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Forecasting optical turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere has been an ambitious challenge for the astronomical scientific community for several decades. While earlier research primarily focused on whether it was possible to predict optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Elena Masciadri , Alessio Turchi , Camilo Weinberger , Marlene De Sepibus , Luca Fini

(35-words maximum) In this talk I present the scientific drivers related to the optical turbulence forecast applied to the ground-based astronomy supported by Adaptive Optics, the state of the art of the achieved results and the most…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-22 Elena Masciadri , Alessio Turchi , Luca Fini

The simulation of the optical turbulence (OT) for astronomical applications obtained with non-hydrostatic atmospherical models at meso-scale presents, with respect to measurements, some advantages. The future of the ground-based astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Masciadri

Forecast of optical turbulence and atmospheric parameters relevant for ground-based astronomy is becoming an important goal for telescope planning and AO instruments optimization in several major telescope. Such detailed and accurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-21 A. Turchi , E. Masciadri , L. Fini

The efficiency of the management of top-class ground-based astronomical facilities supported by Adaptive Optics (AO) relies on our ability to forecast the optical turbulence (OT) and a set of relevant atmospheric parameters. Indeed, in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 E. Masciadri , G. Martelloni , A. Turchi

In this contribution, we present the most recent progresses we obtained in the context of a long-term program we undertook since a few years towards the implementation of operational forecast systems (a) on top-class ground-based telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-17 E. Masciadri , Alessio Turchi , G. Martelloni

This mini-review provides a perspective on recent progress and emerging directions aimed at utilizing and controlling in-plane optical polarization, highlighting key application spaces where in-plane near-field tip responses have enabled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 P. James Schuck , Wei Bao , Nicholas J. Borys

Adaptive Optics is a prime example of how progress in observational astronomy can be driven by technological developments. At many observatories it is now considered to be part of a standard instrumentation suite, enabling ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Davies , M. Kasper

Long distance imaging is subject to the impact of the turbulent atmosphere. This results into geometric distortions and some blur effect in the observed frames. Despite the existence of several turbulence mitigation algorithms in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Nicholas B. Ferrante , Jerome Gilles

Optical turbulence, driven by fluctuations of the atmospheric refractive index, poses a significant challenge to ground-based optical systems, as it distorts the propagation of light. This degradation affects both astronomical observations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Mary Joe Medlej , Rahul Srinivasan , Simon Prunet , Aziz Ziad , Christophe Giordano

In the last two decades, optical vortices carried by twisted light wavefronts have attracted a great deal of interest, providing not only new physical insights into light-matter interactions, but also a transformative platform for boosting…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-05 Chenhao Li , Stefan A. Maier , Haoran Ren

In this contribution we evaluate the impact of filtering techniques in enhancing the accuracy of forecasts of optical turbulence and atmospheric parameters critical for ground-based telescopes. These techniques make use of the data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-22 A. Turchi , G. Martelloni , E. Masciadri

The forecast on a time scale of 1 or 2 hours is crucial for all kind of new generation facilities (ELTs) instrumentation supported by the adaptive optics that will be mainly operated in Service Mode. In a recent study (Masciadri et al.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Elena Masciadri , Alessio Turchi , Luca Fini

We present a personal view of the state of the art in turbulence research. We summarize first the main achievements in the recent past, and then point ahead to the main challenges that remain for experimental and theoretical efforts.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Itamar Procaccia , K. R. Sreenivasan

We extend a recent breakthrough result relating expectation thresholds and actual thresholds to include some rainbow versions.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Tolson Bell , Alan Frieze , Trent G. Marbach

The field of weather and climate science is at a pivotal moment, defined by the dual forces of unprecedented technological advancement. While a shifting research and employment landscape has created career uncertainty, leading to a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Gan Zhang , Zhuo Wang , Kevin A Reed , Lucas M Harris

We summarise the main results from a number of our recent articles on the subject of probabilistic temperature forecasting.

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Jewson

Forecasting and optimisation are two major fields of operations research that are widely used in practice. These methods have contributed to each other growth in several ways. However, the nature of the relationship between these two fields…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mahdi Abolghasemi

Atmospheric turbulence is the one of the major limiting factors for ground-based astronomical observations. In this paper, the problem of short-term forecasting seeing is discussed. The real data that were obtained by atmospheric optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 Matwey V. Kornilov

This paper is a review of recent mathematical and computational advances in optical tomography. We discuss the physical foundations of forward models for light propagation on microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic scales. We also consider…

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