A statistical model for water‐vapour absorption

1952 Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 362 citations

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Abstract A statistical model of a water‐vapour absorption band is discussed, and comparison with computations made by Cowling shows that it provides a very accurate account of the average transmission over narrow frequency bands. The model can be used to compute the atmospheric transmission by water vapour under conditions of meteorological importance which were not treated by Cowling.

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Water vaporTransmission (telecommunications)Absorption (acoustics)ComputationEnvironmental scienceMeteorologyAtmospheric sciencesStatistical modelStatistical analysisComputational physicsPhysicsOpticsMathematicsComputer scienceStatisticsTelecommunicationsAlgorithm

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Year
1952
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Volume
78
Issue
336
Pages
165-169
Citations
362
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R. M. Goody (1952). A statistical model for water‐vapour absorption. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , 78 (336) , 165-169. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.49707833604

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10.1002/qj.49707833604