Reply to “Modern precipitation stable isotope vs. elevation gradients in the High Himalaya” by Hou Shugui et al.

Earth and Planetary Science Letters Elsevier 209:3-4 (2003) 401-403

Authors:

David B Rowley, Brian S Currie, Raymond T Pierrehumbert

Abrupt Climate Change

Science American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 299:5615 (2003) 2005-2010

Authors:

RB Alley, J Marotzke, WD Nordhaus, JT Overpeck, DM Peteet, RA Pielke, RT Pierrehumbert, PB Rhines, TF Stocker, LD Talley, JM Wallace

Counting the cost

Nature Springer Nature 422:6929 (2003) 263-263

Glacial flow of floating marine ice in “Snowball Earth”

Journal of Geophysical Research American Geophysical Union (AGU) 108:C10 (2003)

Authors:

Jason C Goodman, Raymond T Pierrehumbert

SINFONI - Integral field spectroscopy at 50 niilli-arcsecond resolution with the ESO VLT

P SOC PHOTO-OPT INS 4841 (2003) 1548-1561

Authors:

F Eisenhauer, H Bonnet, R Abuter, K Bickert, F Bianca-Marchet, J Brynnel, R Conzelmann, B Delabre, R Donaldson, J Farinto, E Fedrigo, G Finger, R Genzel, N Hubin, C Iserlohe, M Kasper, M Kissler-Patig, G Monnet, C Rohrle, J Schreiber, S Stefan, M Tecza, N Thatte, H Weisz

Abstract:

SINFONI is an adaptive optics assisted near-infrared integral field spectrometer for the ESO VLT. The Adaptive Optics Module (built by the ESO Adaptive Optics Group) is a 60-elements curvature-sensor based system, designed for operations with natural or sodium laser guide stars. The near-infrared integral field spectrometer SPIFFI (built by the Infrared Group of MPE) provides simultaneous spectroscopy of 32 x 32 spatial pixels, and a spectral resolving power of up to 3300. The adaptive optics module is in the phase of integration; the spectrometer is presently tested in the laboratory. We provide an overview of the project, with particular emphasis on the problems encountered in designing and building an adaptive optics assisted spectrometer.