Comparison of columnar water-vapor measurements from solar transmittance methods

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1886-1896

  Schmid, Beat ^a   Michalsky, Joseph J ^b   Slater, Donald W ^c   Barnard, James C ^c   Halthore, Rangasayi N ^d,e   Liljegren, James C ^f,g   Holben, Brent N ^h   Eck, Thomas F ^h   Livingston, John M ⁱ   Russell, Philip B ^j   Ingold, Thomas ^k   Slutsker, Ilya ^h  

^a BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^j NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; VAPORS;

SOLAR TRANSMITTANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

EID: 0001582420     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001886     Document Type: Article

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