This dissertation documents three new contributions to simulation and modeling of optical turbulence. The first contribution is the formalization, optimization,

This report is a tutorial on the effects of atmospheric turbulence upon systems which rely upon the propagation of LASER beams. In addition to providing a simpl

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the forecastability of optical turbulence using the U.S. Navy's Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction Sys

When viewing objects over long distances, atmospheric turbulence introduces significant aberrations in imagery from optics with large apertures. We present a mo

Turbulence modeling both addresses a fundamental problem in physics, 'the last great unsolved problem of classical physics,' and has far-reaching importance in