Precipitable water vapour content above the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory from GPS estimations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7475, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Garcia Lorenzo B ^a,b   Castro Almazan J A ^a,b   Eff Darwich, A ^b   Munoz Tunon C ^a,b   Pinilla Alonso, N ^c   Rodriguez Espinosa, J M ^a,b   Romero, I ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Soluciones Avanzadas Canarias SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

GPS; Infrared conditions; Site testing; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

CANARY ISLANDS; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; GPS; IR INSTRUMENTATION; LINEAR RELATION; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOUR; SITE-TESTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL INFRARED; WATER VAPOUR;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CLOUDS; ESTIMATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 70450197231     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.830235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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