A5101865654- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Ames Research Center
2022
University of Stuttgart
2021
Abstract SOFIA is an airborne observatory for far-infrared astronomy. Although flies at altitudes of ∼41,000 feet, any observations from within the Earth’s atmosphere are nevertheless hampered by water vapor absorbing astronomical signal. The atmospheric parameter governing absorption total upward precipitable vapor, PWV. In this paper we investigated if data provided European Centre Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, ECMWF, can be used to determine spatially and time-resolved PWV allow a more...
Abstract The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is an airborne observatory far-infrared astronomy stationed at the Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) in Palmdale, CA, USA. Although SOFIA flies altitudes of ∼41,000 ft, any observations from within Earth’s atmosphere are nevertheless hampered by water vapor absorbing astronomical signal. primary atmospheric parameter governing absorption total upward precipitable vapor, PWV. In this paper we present global PWV maps...
Abstract We report on the measurements of telluric water vapor made with instrument FIFI-LS SOFIA. Since November 2018, has measured overburden same measurement setup each science flight about 10 data points throughout flight. This created a large sample 469 at different locations, altitudes and seasons. The paper describes principle in detail provides some trend analysis 3 parameters. presents first systematic SOFIA based situ observations.