The Water Vapour Continuum: Brief History and Recent Developments

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 535-555

  Shine, Keith P ^a   Ptashnik, Igor V ^a,b   Rädel, Gaby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Earth radiation budget; Remote sensing; Water dimers; Water vapour spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WINDOW; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CONTINUUM MODEL; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MIDINFRARED; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; RADIATION BUDGET; SPECTRAL LINE; WATER DIMERS; WATER VAPOUR;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; INFRARED DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; VAPORS;

WATER ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84862687530     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-011-9170-y     Document Type: Article

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