From: msarazin@eso.org
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 08:53:26 +0200
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Name: Marc Sarazin
Organization: European Southern Observatory, Munich, Germany
Interests: Monitoring and Prediction of Atmospheric Parameters
	   Relevant for Astronomical Observations.

Projects/systems: 

1. Automatic Astronomical Weather Station for the ESO-Very Large
Telescope
People involved: Marc Sarazin, Fionn Murtagh (Statistical Prediction)
                 Alex Aussem (Neural Nets)

Description: 
The VLT-AWS (Astronomical Weather Station) is an automated system
composed of various sensors (local meteorology, optical seeing,
scintillation, precipitable water vapour, extinction) associated
to a set of predictive algorithms to depict and forecast the
observing environment of an astronomical observatory. The forecast
is used by the dynamical scheduler in charge of optimizing the
observing sequence.

Publications:

@Article{MurtaghSarazin1993,
  author = 	 "Murtagh, Fionn and Sarazin, Marc",
  title = 	 "Nowcasting Astronomical Seeing: A
  study of ESO La Silla and Paranal",
  year =	 "1993",
  journal =      "P.A.S.P {\bf 105}; 932-939, 1993",
}

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