  From the South Pole, microthermal turbulence within a narrow surface boundary
layer some 200m thick provides the dominant contribution to the astronomical
seeing. We present results for the seeing at a wavelength of 2.4um. The narrow
turbulence layer above the site, confined close to the surface, provides
greatly superior conditions for adaptive optics correction than do temperate
latitude sites. An analysis of the available meteorological data for the
Antarctic plateau suggests that sites on its summit, such as Domes A and C,
probably experience significantly better boundary layer seeing than does the
South Pole. In addition, the inversion layers may be significantly narrower,
lending the sites even further to adaptive optics correction than does the
Pole.
