Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-13-297-2006
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-13-297-2006
17 Jul 2006
17 Jul 2006

Non-Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence and optical signal propagation

E. Golbraikh, H. Branover, N. S. Kopeika, and A. Zilberman

Abstract. In the present review, we make an attempt to attract attention to the effect of non-Kolmogorov behavior of turbulence in various scales on the characteristics of electromagnetic waves propagation through a turbulent atmosphere on the example of certain atmospheric experiments. We discuss the interpretation of experimental data based on the model of spectral behavior of a passive scalar field within a broad range of scales, which has been developed recently.