Estimating the atmospheric water vapor content from multi-filter rotating shadow-band radiometry at São Paulo, Brazil

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 171-192

  Plana Fattori, Artemio ^a,e   Dubuisson, Philippe ^b   Fomin, Boris A ^c   de Paula Corrêa, Marcelo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

^c KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical depth; Atmospheric turbidity; Atmospheric water vapor content; Near infrared; S o Paulo (Brazil); Solar transmission measurements

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BANDWIDTH; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETRY; SEA LEVEL; TURBIDITY;

CONTINUUM MODELS; WATER VAPOR ABSORPTION; WATER VAPORS;

VAPORS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; WATER VAPOR;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 13944274957     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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