A Simple Instrument and Technique for Measuring Columnar Water Vapor via Near-IR Differential Solar Transmission Measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 825-831

  Reagan, J A ^a   Thome, K J ^a   Herman, B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential Transmission; solar radiometry; water vapor absorption

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; DIFFERENTIAL SOLAR TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS; LANGLEY PLOT ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIOMETER; WATER VAPOR ABSORPTION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

EID: 0026899491     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.158879     Document Type: Article

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