1 Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 3 Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4 Department of Chemistry, University of York, UK 5 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 6 Labo...

Improved total atmospheric water vapour amount determination from near-infrared filter measurements with sun photometers F. Mavromatakis, C. A. Gueymard, and Y. Franghiadakis Department of Scienses, Technological Education Institute of Crete, Estavromenos, P.O. Box 1939, 710 04 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Solar Consulting Services, P.O. Box 392, Colebrook, NH 03576, USA Received: 14 March 2007 – A...

Modelling water vapour flow, heat transfer and porosity in porous adsorbent is somewhat challenging simulation problem. Primary macroscopic water vapour flow models, such as Darcy's law, fail to predict the pressure drop entirely correctly for the reason that many of flow parameters not considered because of the simplifications that remain made for the multi-scale structure of the porous adsorb...

Accurate representation of the spatial and temporal distribution of water vapour in the atmosphere represents a significant challenge in current meteorological practice. The quality of quantitative precipitation forecasting and of model representation of hydrologic processes is clearly dependent on accurate initialisation of the atmospheric moisture distribution. Atmospheric water vapour is oft...

Global water vapour column amounts have been derived for the first time from measurements of the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHar-tographY (SCIAMACHY) on the European environmental satellite ENVISAT. For this purpose, two different existing retrieval algorithms have been adapted, namely the Air 5 Mass Corrected Differential Absorption Spectroscopy (AMC-DOAS) which w...

Balloon-borne water vapour measurements during January and February 2004, which were obtained as part of the LAUTLOS campaign at Sodankylä, Finland, 67 N, were used to analyse the water vapour distribution in the wintertime Arctic lowermost stratosphere. A 2.5 km thick layer (or 30 K in the potential temperature scale) above the tropopause is characterized by a significant water vapour variabil...