edited by Elena Masciadri (Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy) & Marc Sarazin (European Southern Observatory, Germany)

This book collects most of the talks and poster presentations presented at the "Optical Turbulence — Astronomy meets Meteorology" international conference held on 15–18 September, 2008 at Nymphes Bay, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. The meeting aimed to deal with one of the major causes of wavefront perturbations limiting the astronomical high-angular-resolution observations from the ground. The uniqueness of this meeting has been the effort to attack this topic in a synergic and multidisciplinary approach promoting constructive discussions between the actors of this science — the astronomers, meteorologists, physicists of the atmosphere and the experts in adaptive optics and interferometry techniques whose main goal is to correct, in real-time, the wavefront perturbations induced by atmospheric turbulence to restore at the telescope foci the best available image quality.

• Optical Turbulence in High Angular Resolution Techniques in Astronomy (J M Beckers)
• Optical Turbulence Profiles at CTIO from a 12-Element Lunar Scintillometer (P Hickson et al.)
• High Resolution SLODAR Measurements on Mauna Kea (T Butterley et al.)
• How We Can Understand the Antarctic Atmospheric? (J W V Storey et al.)
• The Paranal Surface Layar (J Melnick et al.)
• Introduction to Data Assimilation in Meteorology (P Brousseau … L Auger)
• The Mauna Kea Weather Center: A Case for Custom Seeing Forecasts (T Cherubini et al.)
• Dealing with Turbulence: MCAO Experience and Beyond (R Ragazzoni et al.)
• Future-Look Science Operations for the LBT (R F Green)
• Surface Layer SLODAR (J Osborn et al.)
• and other papers