Brief Description:
This data set was compiled by V. E. Derr and is available in hard copy and on
magnetic tape. The parameters were collected over many years in response to
requests by researchers for atmospheric electromagnetic wave propagation. Data
presented include attenuation coefficients for the atmosphere and H2O; 1962
Standard Atmospheres; cloud drop size distributions for water and ice spheres;
solar spectral irradiance; sky spectral radiance; Rayleigh coefficients for
air; refractive indices for air, ice, liquid H2O, and various atmospheric
aerosols; and relative reflectance for ice and H2O.
Availability: From NGDC via anonymous ftp or in hard copy or on one magnetic tape.
References:
V. E. Derr, Atmospheric Handbook: Atmospheric Data Tables Available on
Computer Tape, World Data Center A for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Report
UAG-89, Boulder, Colorado, 1984.
Go to the Atmospheric Models index Go to the Space Physics Models page
NASA Official: Dr. Robert McGuire, Head of the Space Physics Data Facility