Measurements of low amounts of precipitable water vapor by millimeter wave spectroscopy: An intercomparison with radiosonde, Raman lidar, and Fourier transform infrared data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Fiorucci, Irene ^a,b   Muscari, Giovanni ^a   Bianchi, Cesidio ^a   Di Girolamo, Paolo ^c   Esposito, Francesco ^c   Grieco, Giuseppe ^c   Summa, Donato ^c   Bianchini, Giovanni ^d   Palchetti, Luca ^d   Cacciani, Marco ^e   Iorio, Tatiana Di ^e   Pavese, Giulia ^f   Cimini, Domenico ^g   De Zafra, Robert L ^h  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^d IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^f CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^h STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; COOLING WATER; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC OPACITY; CONVENTIONAL INSTRUMENTS; DATA SETS; EARTH COOLING; FIELD CAMPAIGN; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; GROUND BASED; HIGH MOUNTAINS; INTERCOMPARISONS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MILLIMETER-WAVE SPECTROMETERS; MILLIMETER-WAVE SPECTROSCOPY; NUMBER OF DATUM; POLAR REGIONS; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR; RAMAN LIDAR;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIDAR; POLAR REGION; PRECIPITABLE WATER; RADIOSONDE; WATER VAPOR;

CERVINIA;

EID: 72049104826     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD009831     Document Type: Article

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