Precipitable water
Measurement Categories: Atmospheric State
Description: Total amount of water vapor in a vertical column of air, often expressed as the depth of the layer of water that would be formed if all the water vapor were condensed to liquid water.
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Instruments that produce the measurement
The above measurement is considered scientifically relevant for the following instruments. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers of each instrument for a list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- ARM Instruments
- External Instruments
- Field Campaign Instruments
- AERIPLUS-University of Wisconsin (AERIPLUS-UWISC)
- Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT)
- Circular Scanning Radiometer (CSR)
- Constrained Variational Analysis (CONSTRVARANA)
- Eta Model Runs (ETA)
- European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Model Data (ECMWF)
- GSFC Raman Lidar (RL-GSFC)
- JAMSTEC Research Vessel Mirai (MIRAI)
- MFRSR Water-Vapor Barnard Algorithm (MFRSR-WV1BARN)
- MWR Retrievals (MWRRET)
- Microwave Radiometer (MWR)
- Microwave Radiometer - ETL (MWR-ETL)
- Microwave Radiometer Profiler (MWRP)
- Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer (MIR)
- NOAA Research Vessel Ron Brown (RONBROWN)
- Raman LIDAR Vertical Profiles (RLPROF)
- Raman LIDAR Vertical Profiles of Water Vapor Mixing Ratio (RLPROFMR)
- Wind Profiler Demonstration Network GPS (WPDNGPS)
Value-Added Products (VAPs) including the measurement
- (MWRAVG) Microwave Radiometer Averages in 1- and 5-Minute Increments Process
- (RLPROF) Raman LIDAR Vertical Profiles Process
- 10rlprofbe1turn - Raman LIDAR (RL): Best-estimate state of the atmos. profiles from RL & AERI+GOES retrievals
- 10rlprofmr1turn - Raman LIDAR (RL): water vapor mixing ratio and relative humidity profiles, along with PWV
- (SSMI) Special Sensor Microwave/Imager Process
- ssmi10 - Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I): Satellite 10
- ssmi11 - Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I): Satellite 11
- ssmi13 - Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I): Satellite 13
- ssmi14 - Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I): Satellite 14
- ssmi15 - Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I): Satellite 15
- (SUOMIGPS) SuomiNet Global Positioning System Process
- 30suomigps - SuomiNet GPS: 30-min averages
- (WPDNGPS) Wind Profiler Demonstration Network GPS Process
- 30wpdngps - Wind Profiler Demo Network (WPDN): total precipitable water vapor from GPS, 30 min
Datastreams including the measurement
- (CSPHOT) Cimel Sunphotometer Datastreams
- csphotalm1dubo - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): Dubovik almucantar retrievals
- csphotaot - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness data
- csphotaotfilt - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness, filtered data
- csphotaotfiltqa - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness, filtered quality assurance data
- (ECMWF) European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Model Data Datastreams
- ecmwfdarsurf - ECMWF: surface measurement, Darwin
- ecmwfmansurf - ECMWF: surface measurement, Manus
- ecmwfnausurf - ECMWF: surface measurement, Nauru
- (MWR) Microwave Radiometer Datastreams
- mwrlos - Microwave Water Radiometer (MWR): water liq. & vapor along line of sight (LOS) path
- (MWRP) Microwave Radiometer Profiler Datastreams
- mwrp - Microwave Radiometer data (MWR Profiles - QME), water vapor, temp, cloud liquid water, precip water retrievals
- (RUC) Rapid Update Cycle Model Data Datastreams
- allruc20hybr - Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: hybrid analysis data, 20-km resolution
- allruc20isob - Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: isobaric main analysis data, 20-km resolution
- allruc40hybr - Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: hybrid analyisis data, 40 km resolution
- allruc40isob - Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: isobaric main analysis data, 40-km resolution
- ruc20hybr - Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: daily hybrid analysis data, 20 km resolution
- ruc20isob - Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: daily isobaric analysis data, 20 km resolution
- synruc20isob - Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: isobaric output, 20 km grid, averaged to 40 km
