Measuring total column water vapor by pointing an infrared thermometer at the sky

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1311-1320

  Mims III, Forrest M ^a   Chambers, Lin Hartung ^b   Brooks, David R ^c  

^a Geronimo Creek Observatory   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Institute for Earth Science Research and Education   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEAR SKY; DISCRETE BANDS; EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; GPS SATELLITES; GROUND BASED; INFRA-RED RADIOMETERS; INFRARED SPECTRUM; INFRARED THERMOMETERS; IR WAVELENGTHS; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR; PRESENCE OF WATER; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SUN PHOTOMETERS;

CLOUDS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SATELLITES; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOMETERS;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 80555136737     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011BAMS3215.1     Document Type: Article

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