Test of far-infrared atmospheric spectroscopy using wide-band balloon-borne measurements of the upwelling radiance

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1030-1042

  Bianchini, G ^a   Carli, B ^a   Cortesi, U ^a   Del Bianco, S ^a   Gai, M ^a   Palchetti, L ^a  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric emission; Far infrared; Radiative transfer; Spectroscopic database; Water vapour continuum

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION; FAR-INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTRORADIOMETER; WIDE-BAND NADIR-LOOKING SPECTRA;

SPECTROSCOPY;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; DATABASE; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADIANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; UPWELLING; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 40649083109     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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