Retrieval of foreign-broadened water vapor continuum coefficients from emitted spectral radiance in the H2O rotational band from 240 to 590 cm

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15816-15833

  Serio, Carmine ^a   Masiello, Guido ^a   Esposito, Francesco ^a   Di Girolamo, Paolo ^a   Di Iorio, Tatiana ^b   Palchetti, Luca ^c   Bianchini, Giovanni ^c   Muscari, Giovanni ^e   Pavese, Giulia ^d   Rizzi, Rolando ^f   Carli, Bruno ^c   Cuomo, Vincenzo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; EARTH COOLING; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; ROTATIONAL BAND; SPECTRAL RADIANCE; SPECTRAL RANGE; WATER VAPOR CONTINUUMS;

WATER VAPOR;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GASES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 53249105815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015816     Document Type: Article

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