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Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón |
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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.Tenerife. Spain |
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| Session | | 1 (Instrumentation and observations to quantify the magnitude and distribution of atmospheric optical turbulence.) |
| Title | | 'Climatology at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory: tropospheric and ground level regimes.
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| Abstract | | (Submitted as poster)
The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) at La Palma (Canary Islands) is one of the two top sites preselected for hosting the future European Large Telescope (ELT), the other one is Paranal. Meteorological and seeing conditions are crucial for the site selection. Meteorological data provided by different ground Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) operating at the ORM from 1985 have been gathered and analysed in order to know the climatology and the local orographical effects. For analysis, day time and night time values have been separately considered. Here we also present the troposphere wind rose at the ORM -from climate diagnostic archives data- and the ground level wind roses and wind speed statistical results -from AWS ground data. We compare these results with those obtained at other astronomical observatories. At the ORM we have identified a high correlation between high and low altitude wind speed, which can be understood with the trade wind scenario favouring the astronomical observations and not significant climatic change.
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