Recent advances in measurement of the water vapour continuum in the far-infrared spectral region

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1968, 2012, Pages 2637-2655

  Green, Paul D ^a   Newman, Stuart M ^b   Beeby, Ralph J ^a   Murray, Jonathan E ^a   Pickering, Juliet C ^a   Harries, John E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airborne measurements; Far infrared; Spectroscopy; Water vapour continuum

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER VAPOR;

AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; FAR INFRARED; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; MODEL PARAMETRIZATION; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS; WATER VAPOUR CONTINUUMS;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 84860601719     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0263     Document Type: Article

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