Recent work on submillimeter opacity and tropospheric water vapor abundance:

R. A. Chamberlin, 2004,  Reanalysis of the 1992 mm-wavelength South Pole atmospheric opacity data,  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 21(3), 264-274.

R. A. Chamberlin and C. L. Martin, 2003,  Atmospheric Opacity from a Submillimeter FTS at the Geographic South Pole,  in AMOS Conference Proceedings, ed. P. Kervin, and J. Africano, AFRL/MEDB, 590 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 103, Kihei, HI, 96753.

R. A. Chamberlin and R. Martin and C. L. Martin and A. A. Stark, 2003 A Submillimeter Atmospheric FTS at the Geographic South Pole, in "Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy", SPIE Proceedings Series, Vol. 4855, p. 609 ed. T. G. Phillips and J. Zmuidzinas, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010

Chamberlin, R. A., 2002, Comparisons of saturated water vapor column from
radiosonde, and mm and submm radiometric opacities at the South Pole, in Vol. CS-266 ASTRONOMICAL SITE EVALUATION IN THE VISIBLE AND RADIO RANGE, IAU Technical Worshop, eds. J. Vernin, Z. Benkhaldoun, and C. Muqoz-Tuqsn ISBN: 1-58381-106-0


Chamberlin, R. A., 2001, South Pole submillimeter sky opacity and correlations
with radiosonde observations, J. Geophysical Research - Atmospheres,  106 {D17},  pp. 20101-20113

Chamberlin, R. A., 1999, South Pole submillimeter site characteristics
from heterodyne measurements, page 201 of: National Radio Science Meeting
Abstracts, USNC/URSI National Academy of Sciences, Washington D. C.

Chamberlin, R. A., Lane, A. P., and Stark A. A., 1997, The 492GHz Atmospheric
Opacity at the Geographic South Pole, Astrophysical J., 476, pp. 428-433

Chamberlin, R. A., and Bally, J., 1995,  The observed relationship
between the South Pole 225-GHz atmospheric opacity and the water vapor
column density, International J. Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 16(5),
pp. 907-920

Chamberlin, R. A., and Bally, J., 1994, 225-GHz atmospheric opacity of the
South Pole sky derived from continual radiometric measurements of the
sky brightness temperature, Applied Optics, 33(6), pp. 1095-1099
 
 
 

Last updated: 19-March-2004

Richard Chamberlin / cham@submm.caltech.edu