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The effect of contamination on spectroscopic determinations of stratospheric water vapour
Author(s) -
Houghton J. T.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49709239212
Subject(s) - water vapor , mixing ratio , stratosphere , altitude (triangle) , mixing (physics) , contamination , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , absorption (acoustics) , spectrometer , environmental chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , materials science , meteorology , chemistry , optics , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , composite material , biology , ecology
The effect is considered of the presence of water vapour in the optical path of a spectrometer used to measure absorption by atmospheric water vapour. If such possible contamination is ignored, the water vapour mixing‐ratio profiles deduced from the measurements will show increasing mixing‐ratio with altitude in the stratosphere.