Sentences with phrase «total precipitable water»

It's important to understand that the computation of total optical thickness depends on total precipitable water — that is water vapor through the entire atmosphere.

Implement a new total precipitable water (TPW) predictor in the SHIPS model to help account for the impact of dry layers (e.g. the SAL and mid-latitude dry air intrusions) on tropical cyclone intensity.

This image shows the total precipitable water forecast to be in the atmosphere at 11 a.m. on...

Note 1 — The total amount of water vapor, TPW (total precipitable water), is obviously something we want to know, but we don't have enough information if we don't know the distribution of this water vapor with height.

Here I have the Earth Null School site showing total precipitable water in the atmosphere.

Here is a near real time super computer visualization of surface winds with a total precipitable water overlay.

To reduce the variability and bias introduced into the QME AERI / LBLRTM radiance residuals, the moisture profiles from each radiosonde are scaled such that its total precipitable water vapor matches that retrieved from the microwave radiometer (MWR), and these scaled profiles are used to drive the model.

Not exact matches

«This parameter represents the total precipitable centimeters of water vapor in the atmosphere and is determined from analysis of satellite infrared sounder data (NOAA operational analysis).

Precipitable water - The total amount of atmospheric water vapor in a vertical column of unit cross-sectional area.

The mean distribution of precipitable water, or total atmospheric water vapor above the Earth's surface, is shown in Figure 2.