Astroclimatology Selected Papers

Introduction

• "Site surveys, from pioneering times to the VLT era", Marc Sarazin, ESO Messenger, June 1994 (Postscript, 4 pp. Version in LaTex).

  Seeing Prediction, Weather Forecasting

  "Statistical Prediction of Astronomical Seeing and of Telescope Thermal Environment"
  F. Murtagh, H.-M. Adorf, M. Sarazin; Proc. of Eso Conf. on Progress in Telescope and Instrumentation Technologies; Ed. M.H. Ulrich; Garching, Apr. 27-30, 1992, p.377-380. [4-pp. postscript file, 59K]

  "Nowcasting astronomical seeing: a study of ESO La Silla and Paranal",
  F. Murtagh and M. Sarazin, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 105, 932-939, 1993. [21-pp. postscript file, 120K]

  "Dynamical recurrent neural networks and pattern recognition methods for time series prediction: application to seeing and temperature forecasting in the context of ESO's VLT Astronomical Weather Station",
  A. Aussem, F. Murtagh and M. Sarazin, Vistas in Astronomy, 38, 357-374, 1994. [lengthier version of published paper: 39pp. postscript, 572K]

  "Fuzzy astronomical seeing nowcasts with a dynamical and recurrent connectionist network",
  A. Aussem, F. Murtagh and M. Sarazin, Neurocomputing, 13 (1996) 359-373. [24pp. postscript, 201K]

  "Nowcasting astronomical seeing: towards an operational approach",
  F. Murtagh, A. Aussem, and M. Sarazin, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 107, 1995, 702-707. [14pp. postscript, 67K]

  "Dynamical recurrent neural networks - towards environmental time series prediction",
  A. Aussem, F. Murtagh and M. Sarazin, International Journal of Neural Systems, 6, 145-170, June 1995. [43 pp., 433KB]

  "The prediction of seeing and other relevant climatological conditions",
  M. Sarazin and F. Murtagh, 'New Observing Modes for the 21st Century', ASP Conf. Series Vol.87, 1996 p47-57 (124K bytes).

  "Nowcasting Astronomical Seeing and Forecasting Telescope Environment for the ESO VLT"
  F. Murtagh and M. Sarazin; Application of Time Series Analysis in Astronomy and Meteorology, Chap.20, p320-328, 1997 Chapman et Hall, London. p.377-380. [9-pp. postscript file, 121K]

  Related Thesis Works

  "The Effect of Local Atmospheric Environment on Astronomical Observations", Lorenzo Zago, PhD Thesis (in HTML), Feb. 1995.

  "Théorie et Applications des Réseaux de Neurones Récurrents et Dynamiques à la Prédiction, à la Modélisation et au Contrôle Adaptatif des Processus Dynamiques, Alexandre Aussem, PhD Thesis (compressed Postscript), June 1995.

  1993 Bibliographical research HTML and Postscript. See also Marc Sarazin's bibliography

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