Table 1:
South Pole seeing as measured by the A-DIMM in 2001 at
a wavelength of 500 nm. It is compared to other seeing measurements
done at the South Pole. All values are in arcseconds.
Instrument |
Sample size (days) |
Mean |
Std. Dev. |
Median |
Best 25% |
Best |
Worst |
A-DIMM (This work) |
101 |
1.90 |
0.60 |
1.82 |
1.43 |
0.46 |
3.72 |
SODAR (Travouillon et al. 2003) |
269 |
1.73 |
1.07 |
1.59 |
1.17 |
<0.3 |
8.11 |
Microthermals (Marks et al. 1999) |
16 |
1.86 |
0.75 |
1.6 |
1.0 |
0.8 |
3.1 |
H-DIMM (Loewenstein et al. 1998) |
28 |
1.53 |
- |
1.64 |
- |
0.6 |
6.2 |
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