Abstract
Methods are described and results are presented for sensing the columnar content of atmospheric water vapor via differential solar transmission measurements in, and adjacent, to the 0. 94- mu m water-vapor absorption band. Calibration and measurement techniques are discussed for obtaining the water-vapor transmission from the radiometer measurements. Models are also presented for retrieving the columnar water-vapor amount from the estimated transmission. Example retrievals are given for radiometer measurements made during the 1986 Arizona monsoon season to track temporal variations in columnar water vapor amount.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 63-67 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| State | Published - 1987 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences