ESPAS site summary series: Mauna Kea

Author:

European Southern Observatory,

Title:

ESPAS site summary series: Mauna Kea

Periodical:

ESO Search for Potential Astronomical Sites (ESPAS) summary series

Year:

2003

Volume:

Issue 1.2, 06/03/03

Subject:

Mauna Kea Site surveys Astronomical observatories Mauna Kea Astronomy

Summary:

The ESPAS (ESO Search for Potential Astronomical Sites) conducted a site survey for Mauna Kea in the following areas: Local meteorology; cloudiness, extinction, sky brightness; IR transparency, water vapour; high altitude wind flow; seeing; climatic trends at Big Island, Hawaii; and seismicity.

URL:

http://www.iac.es/site-testing/images/stories/espasmaunakea.pdf http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/pubs/astclim/espas/espas_reports/ESPAS-MaunaKea.pdf

Collection:

Monographs