ESO Internal Workshop

D. Andre Erasmus

Associate Professor of Meteorology
formerly with Department of Earth Sciences
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO U.S.A. 80639
Tel. (970) 351-1448 Fax. (970) 351-1269

Bibliography: The Feasibility of Forecasting Cirrus Cloud Cover and Water Vapor above Telescope Sites in Northern Chile PASP 109: 208-214, 1997 February, by A. Erasmus and R. Peterson. (Some synoptic information on water vapor circulation over the southern Pacific can be found on the H2O flow chart, Demo movies of 24-hour forecast message issued on Nov. 29 1993 at 15h UT for subsequent 3-hourly bins (170kB mpeg), 24-hour of input images on June 14-15, 1993 (480kB mpeg), and 2 weeks of input images on June 14-29, 1993 (4mB mpeg).)

CRS4
Via N. Sauro, 10
I09123 Cagliari, Sardinia
Tel. (+39)7027961 Fax. (+39) 702796216

Feasibility study of a meteorological predition model for ESO observatories in Chile

Universite de Nice
Departement d'Astrophysique
Parc Valrose F06108 NICE CEDEX 02
Tel. (+33) 04 92 07 63 20 Fax. (+33) 04 92 07 63 21

Bibliography: P. Bougeault, Chen De Hui, B. Fleury, J. Laurent, Investigation of seeing by means of an atmospheric mesoscale numerical simulation , Appl. Opt., 34 No:18, 3481-3488, June 1995

European Center for Medium Range Forecast ( ECMWF )
Shinfield Park
Reading RG2 9AX, UK
Tel. (0118) 949 9453 Fax. (0118) 986 9450

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