Mark Chang's Department Projects Page

Research Information

Optical Measurements of Turbulence in the Atmosphere:

(all SPIE papers are copyright SPIE)

Preprints (2007):

[DJVU PDF] Comparing horizontal path C_n² measurements over 0.6 km in the tropical littoral environment and in the desert [SPIE 6551-19 Defense and Security].

[DJVU PDF] Patching C_n² Time Series Data Hole using Principal Component Analysis [SPIE 6551-23 Defense and Security].

[DJVU PDF] Turbulence Time Series Data Hole FIlling using Karhunen-Loève and ARIMA methods [ICOLAD 2007, City University, London, UK]. (also arXiv.org physics/0701238)

[DJVU PDF] Humidity contribution to C_n² over a 600m pathlength in a tropical marine environment [SPIE 6457B-29 Photonics West 2007] (also arXiv.org physics/0701022)

[PDF PS DJVU] Humidity's influence on visible region refractive index structure parameter C_n²; [accepted for publication in Applied Optics] (also arXiv.org physics/0606075)

Recent Posters (2006):

[PPT] NOAA Tallahassee, Florida 2006

OSA Frontiers in Optics (various formats)

[PDF] HHT & C_n² SPIE 6268

[PPT] Humidity & C_n² SPIE 6268

SPIE Reprints:

[PDF PS] On the relationship between C_n² and humidity [proc. SPIE 6268]

[PDF PS] Applying the Hilbert-Huang decomposition to horizontal light propagation C_n² [proc. SPIE 6268] (also arXiv.org physics/0605059)

[PDF PS] Humidity contribution to the refractive index structure function C_n² [proc. SPIE 6215] (also arXiv.org physics/0605050)

Low altitude horizontal scintillation measurements of atmospheric turbulence over the sea: Experimental Results SPIE 6014, p 321, 2005.

Marine environment optical propagation measurements SPIE 5550, p 40, 2004.

Horizontal path propagation measurements over the sea SPIE 5491, p 1274, 2004.