Determination of precipitable water from solar transmission

K. J. Thome; B. M. Herman; J. A. Reagan

doi:10.1175/1520-0450(1992)031<0157:DOPWFS>2.0.CO;2

Determination of precipitable water from solar transmission

K. J. Thome
, B. M. Herman
, J. A. Reagan

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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A method of determining precipitable water to within 10% from solar radiometer data has been developed. The method uses a modified Langley technique to obtain the water vapor optical depth, and a model developed at the University of Arizona is used to convert this to a precipitable water amount. The method is applied to two- and three-channel radiometric data and is compared to results obtained from empirical methods and to radiosonde data. -Authors

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	157-165
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Applied Meteorology
Volume	31
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1992)031<0157:DOPWFS>2.0.CO;2
State	Published - 1992

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