Non-Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence and optical signal propagation

E. Golbraikh (1) , H. Branover (1) , N. S. Kopeika (2) , A. Zilberman (2)

1 Center for MHD Studies
2 Dept. of Electrooptical Engineering

In the present review, we make an attempt to attract attention to the effect of non-Kolmogorov behavior of turbulence in various scales on the characteristics of electromagnetic waves propagation through a turbulent atmosphere on the example of certain atmospheric experiments. We discuss the interpretation of experimental data based on the model of spectral behavior of a passive scalar field within a broad range of scales, which has been developed recently.

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Sciences de la Terre

E. Golbraikh, H. Branover, N. S. Kopeika, A. Zilberman. Non-Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence and optical signal propagation. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2006, 13 (3), pp.297-301. ⟨hal-00302748⟩