A study of the theory and operation of a resonance fluorescence water vapour sensor for upper tropospheric humidity measurements

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 443-453

  Keramitsoglou, I ^a   Harries, J E ^b   Colling, D J ^b   Barker, R A ^c   Foot, J S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYGROMETERS; MOISTURE METERS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

HIGH-ACCURACY MEASUREMENTS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MODELLING STUDIES; OXYGEN ABSORPTION; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCES; SPOT MEASUREMENTS; TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; VOLUME MIXING RATIOS;

FLUORESCENCE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0041366045     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482702004073     Document Type: Article

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