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A compact and low resolution spectrometer for the inversion of water vapor total column amounts
Title: A compact and low resolution spectrometer for the inversion of water vapor total column amounts
Authors: Sepúlveda Hernández, EliezerAutor AEMETSchneider, Matthias RESEARCHERID Hase, FrankGarcía Rodríguez, Omaira Elena ORCID RESEARCHERID Autor AEMETGisi, MichaelBlumenstock, ThomasDohe, SusanneGonzález Ramos, Yenny ORCID Autor AEMETGuerra García, Juan Carlos
Keywords: Water vapor; Inversion; Compact Fourier transform spectrometer
Issue Date: 2013
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Citation: AIP Conference Proceedings. 2013, 1531, p. 368-371
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4804783
Abstract: Observations of atmospheric water vapor (H2O) amounts are required for the investigation of important and current atmospheric studies, such as the hydrological cycle, energy balance, climate change, etc. In this context, we present a portable, very compact, commercial and very low resolution Fourier transform spectrometer for the remote sensing of total column amounts of H2O at a high measurement frequency (one measurement about every 2 minutes). The methodology applied to carry out this work is explained. Moreover, first results are compared with high quality H2O total column amounts obtained by a collocated non-mobile high resolution Fourier transform spectrometer. This inter-comparison documents that the very low resolution instrument is well suited for capturing the variability of H2O total column amounts (with precision better than 4%), but that suffers from a significant wet bias (about 30%).
Sponsorship : E. Sepúlveda enjoys a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. M. Schneider is supported by the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007- 2013)/ERC Grant agreement number 256961. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) within the NORS project (grant agreement no. 284421).
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/7620
ISSN: 0094-243X
1551-7616
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