Total precipitable water in the atmosphere over India |
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| Authors: | S Rangarajan A Mani |
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| Institution: | (1) Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, 411 005 Pune, India |
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| Abstract: | Electromagnetic radiation, in its passage through the atmosphere, is attenuated by absorption and scattering by atmospheric
gases, dust and aerosols. The most important absorber is water vapour and the most significant parameter in atmospheric absorption
studies is the total precipitable water in the atmosphere. The present paper summarises the results of a study made to compute
the total precipitable water in the atmosphere over India using radiosonde and other data, as part of a programme for the
computation of direct, global and diffuse solar radiation at the ground from the solar constant. Using values of air temperature
and dew point from the ground up to 250 mb at 19 radiosonde stations and surface water vapour mixing ratio values at 105 surface
observatories in India, precipitable water amounts have been computed for 124 stations, for each month and for the whole year.
The paper describes the techniques used to extend the total precipitable water amounts derived from radiosonde data at 19
stations to 124 stations covering the major climatic zones in the country and presents the results in the form of 12 maps
showing the spatial and temporal distribution of total precipitable water over India |
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| Keywords: | Total precipitable water solar radiation radiosonde humidity mixing ratio |
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