PWV measurements
Introduction
Water vapor in the atmosphere has a major effect on the quality of the observations in various spectral regions of the near- and mid-infrared. This page summarizes the measurements obtained at Paranal.
Method
The method used to obtain the following measurements is described in Measuring the amount of precipitable water vapour with VISIR by Smette, A., Horst, H., Navarrete, J. 2007, Proceedings of the 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop, Springer-Verlag series "ESO Astrophysics Symposia", eds. F. Kerber & A. Kaufer. A paper is in preparation. Interested people should contact Alain Smette.
Individual measurements
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General plots
January 2007 - February 2008 December 2005 - January 2007
Monthly plots
2008
January
2007
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2006
January February March April May June July August September October November December
2005
December