Field campaign LINEX 96/1 - Possibilities of water vapor observation in the free atmosphere

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 377-391

  Steinhagen, H ^a,f   Bakan, S ^b   Bosenberg J ^c   Dier, H ^a,f   Engelbart, D ^a,f   Fischer, J ^a,g   Gendt, G ^d   Gorsdorf U ^a,f   Guldner J ^e,h   Jansen, F ^c   Lehmann, V ^a,f   Leiterer, U ^a,f   Neisser, J ^a,f   Wulfmeyer, V ^c  

^a Universität Hamburg ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^e DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^f Meteorologisches Observatorium L   (Germany)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h Meteorologisches Observatorium P   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012764713     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/metz/7/1998/377     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Ansmann, A., 1985: Errors in ground-based water-vapor DIAL-measurements due to the Doppler-broadened Rayleigh backscattering. - Appl. Optics, 24, 3476-3480.
2. Askne, J. I. H., E. R. Westwater, 1986: A review of ground-based sensing of temperature and moisture by passive microwave radiometers. - IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., Ge-34, No. 3, 340-352.
3. Bevis, M., S. Businger, S. Chiswill, T. Herring, R. Anthes, C. Rocken, R. Ware, 1994: GPS meteorology: Mapping zenith wet delays into precipitable water vapor. - J. Appl. Meteor. 33, 379-386.
4. Bösenberg, J., 1991: A differential absorption lidar system for high resolution water vapor measurements in the troposphere. - Rep. 71, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg.
5. -1997: Remote sensing of the troposphere using differential absorption lidar. - Rep. 236, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, 130 pp.
6. Businger, S., S. R. Chiswell, M. Bevis, J. Duan, R. A. Anthes, C. Rocken, R. H. Ware, M. Exner, T. VanHove, F. S. Solheim, 1996: The promise of GPS in atmospheric monitoring. -Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. 77, 5-18.
7. Clifford, S. F., J. C. Kaimal, R. J. Lataitis, R. G. Strauch, 1994: Ground-based remote profiling in atmospheric studies: an overview. - Proc. of the IEEE 82, 313-355.
8. Emanuel, K. et al., 1995: Report of the First Prospectus Development Team of the U.S. Weather Research Programm to NOAA and the NSF. - Bull. Am. Met. Soc. 76, 1194-1208.
9. Fleming, R. J., R. M. Hardesty, I. A. Reagan, W. S. Smith, 1995: Implementation Plan for a composite water vapor observing system for atmospheric science applications. -NOAA/ERE paper, March 10, 1995, 62 pp.
10. Kuo, Y.-H., Y.-R. Guo, E. R. Westwater, 1993: Assimilation of precipitable water into a mesoscale numerical model. -Mon. Wea. Rev. 121, 1215-1238.
11. Leick, A., 1990: GPS Satellite Surveying. - John Wiley & Sons, 352 pp.
12. Leiterer, U., G. Alekseeva, V. Galkin, J. Güldner, H. Dier, A. Naebert, T. Naebert, V. Novikov, H. Rentsch, G. Sakunov, 1998: Water vapor column content and optical depths measurements by a sun- and starphotometer. - Submitted to Beitr. Phys. Atmosph.
13. Leiterer, U., A. Naebert, T. Naebert, G. Alekseeva, 1995: A New Star Photometer Developed for Spectral Aerosol Optical Thickness Measurements in Eindenberg. - Beitr. Phys. Atmosph. 68, 133-141.
14. Leiterer, U., M. Weller, 1988: Sunphotometer BAS/ABAS for Atmospheric Research. - WMO/TD-No. 222/21-26.
15. May, P. T., R. G. Strauch, K. P. Moran, W. E. Ecklund, 1990: Temperature sounding by RASS with wind profiler radars: A preliminary study. - IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., 28, 11-20.
16. NOAA, 1994: Wind profiler assessment report and recommendations for future use. - U.S. Department of commerce, s Silver Spring Maryland, 141 pp.
17. Schotland, R. M., 1966: Some observations of the vertical profile of water vapor by means of a ground based optical radar. - Proc. Fourth Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, University of Michigan, 271 pp.
18. Smith, W. L., R. O, Knuteson, H. E. Revercomb, F. Best, R. Bedecker, H. Howell, 1993: GB-HIS: A measurement system for continuous profiling of boundary layer thermodynamic structure. - 8th Symp. on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, J180-J183.
19. Solheim, F., 1993: Use of pointed water vapor radiometer observations to improve vertical GPS surveying accuracy. -Doctoral Thesis, University of Colorado, 128 pp.
20. Solheim, F., J. R. Godwin, E. R. Westwater, Y. Han, S. J. Keihm, K. Marsh, R. Ware, 1998: Radiometric profiling of temperature, water vapor, and cloud liquid water using various inversion methods. - Radio Sci. 33, No. 2, 393-404.
21. Spänkuch, D., W. Döhler, J. Güldner, A. Keens, 1996: Ground-based passive atmospheric remote sounding by FTIR emission spectroscopy - First results with EISAR. - Beitr. Phys. Atmosph. 69, 97-111.
22. Theopold, F. A., J. Bösenberg, 1993: Differential absorption lidar measurements of atmospheric temperature profiles: Theory and experiment. - J. Oceanic Atmos. Technol. 10, 165-179.
23. Weber, B. F., 1987: Convective wind fields as investigated with Doppler lidar. - NOAA Tech. Memo, ERL WPL-148, NOAA Environ. Res. Labs., Boulder, CO.
24. Wei, C., D. Lu, 1994: A universal regression retrieval method of the ground-based microwave remote sensing of precipitable water vapor and path-integrated cloud liquid water content. - J. Atmos. Res. 34, 309-332.
25. Westwater, E. R., 1993: Ground-based microwave remote sensing of meteorological variables. - In: M. A. Janssen (ed.), Atmospheric remote sensing by microwave radiometry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 145-214.
26. Wulfmeyer, V., J. Bösenberg, 1996: Single-mode operation of an injection-seeded alexandrite ring laser for application in water-vapor and temperature differential absorption lidar. - Optical letters 21, 1150-1152.
27. Wulfmeyer, V., J. Bösenberg, F. Jansen, F. Göktas, L. Hirsch, G. Peters, 1997: Water-Vapor Differential Absorption Lidar Measurements during the Baltic Sea Experiment 1996. Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Conference edition, February 10-14, 1997; Santa Fe, New Mexico.
28. Wulfmeyer, V., J. Bösenberg, S. Lehmann, C. Senff, St. Schmitz, 1995: Injection-seeded alexandrite ring laser: performance and application in a water-vapor differential absorption lidar. - Optical letters 20, 638-640.