Dome C boundary layer and seeing peculiarities

E. Fossat (1) , E. Aristidi (1)

1 LUAN - Laboratoire Universitaire d'Astrophysique de Nice

This paper presents some statistical information about the Concordia turbulent surface inversion layer, regarding height and turbulent energy, its contribution to the peculiar local seeing, and the free atmosphere seeing encountered just above this surface layer.

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

E. Fossat, E. Aristidi. Dome C boundary layer and seeing peculiarities. 3rd ARENA Conference: An Astronomical Observatory at CONCORDIA (Dome C, Antarctica), 2009, Frascati, Italy. pp.73-78, ⟨10.1051/eas/1040008⟩. ⟨hal-02481868⟩