Water vapor absorption spectra of the upper atmosphere (45–185 cm^−1)

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
The far ir nighttime absorption spectrum of the earth’s atmosphere above 14 km is determined from observations of the bright moon. The spectra were obtained using a Michelson interferometer attached to a 30-cm telescope aboard a high-altitude jet aircraft. Comparison with a single-layer model atmosphere implies a vertical column of 3.4 ± 0.4 μm of percipitable water on 30 August 1971 and 2.4 ± 0.3 μm of precipitable water on 6 January 1972.

This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit: