A review of the Naval Research Laboratory program in atmospheric measurements and application to modeling: 1: Precision atmospheric transmission measurements and model comparisons
Abstract
Extensive field measurements of atmospheric extinction at several infrared wavelengths were performed using procedures and facilities described in this paper. Recent additions to these experiments include a high resolution Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) and a gas filter correlation spectrometer (GFCS) which uses HDO as the filter gas. The combination of laser extinction, FTS and GFCS measurements provide well characterized and precisely calibrated high resolution transmission spectra useful in comparisons to computational models. Examples of comparisons between these data and line-by-line computer calculations for several spectral regions are presented and discussed.
- Publication:
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Operational Modelling of the Aerospace Propagation Environment, Volume 1
- Pub Date:
- November 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978omap....1Q....D
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Attenuation;
- Atmospheric Models;
- Extinction;
- Military Operations;
- Filters;
- High Resolution;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Spectrometers;
- Spectrum Analysis;
- Geophysics