Improved measurements of the foreign-broadened continuum of water vapor in the 6.3 μm band at -30°C

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1358-1365

  Rowe, Penny M ^a   Von Walden, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION; ATMOSPHERIC EMITTED RADIANCE INTERFEROMETERS; EMISSION MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENTS OF; RADIANCE CALIBRATION; RADIANCE SIMULATION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPORS;

WATER VAPOR;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION; STEAM; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 63049129528     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001358     Document Type: Article

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