Abstract: A climatological examination of the global water vapor field based on a multiyear period of successful satellite-based observations is presented. Results from the multiyear global ISCCP TOVS water vapor dataset as operationally ...

Abstract: This paper describes a physically based method for the retrieval of upper-tropospheric humidity (UTH) and upper-tropospheric column water vapor (UTCWV) based an the use of radiance data collected by the TIROS Operational ...