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In this paper, the dynamic evolution of atmospheric turbulence is studied by using an infinitely long phase screen (ILPS), and the atmospheric coherent time is defined to describe the variation speed of the phase fluctuation induced by atmospheric turbulence. The simulation results show that the temporal decoherence of the echo induced by turbulence causes phase fluctuation and introduces an extra random phase, which deteriorates the phase stability and makes coherent synthesis impossible. Thus, we evaluated its effects on ISAL imaging and found a method to mitigate the impact of turbulence on ISAL images. The phase compensation algorithm could correct the phase variation in different pulses instead of that within the same pulse. Therefore, the relationship between the atmospheric coherent time and pulse duration time (rather than that between the atmospheric coherent time and ISAL imaging time) ultimately determines the ISAL imaging quality. 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