Prompt Atmospheric Neutrinos: Phenomenology and Implications

We present an overview of the phenomenology of prompt neutrinos produced in the atmosphere by the decay of charmed particles. In face of the great activity involving operational and proposed large scale neutrino telescopes, we discuss the implications of different scenarios in calculating the prompt flux, upon the detectable signals in these experiments. 1 Talk presented at the PHENO 2001 Symposium, May 7-9, 2001, University of Wisconsin Madison. http://pheno.physics.wisc.edu/pheno01/ Preprint submitted to PHENO 2001 May 25, 2001