Vol. 5, issue 07, article # 2

Abstract:

Some results of field measurements of the water vapor continuum absorption near 10.6 μm are presented. The adjustable parameters of the approximating expression used for calculations of the coefficients of continuum absorption are obtained. The positive temperature dependence of the linear term in the expression for the continuum absorption coefficient was found to be +0.97...+1.05%*deg^–1 in the temperature range 285–308 K, while the negative temperature dependence of the squared term was –2.1...–2.4%•deg^–1.