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IN 1912–13, F. E. Fowle1 made studies of the absorption of infra-red radiation by water-vapour at 0.93μ, 1.13μ and 1.47μ, in order to determine spectroscopically the total water-vapour content of the atmosphere. The first two wave-lengths are at the centres of the ρ and ϕ bands; the last is about 450 cm.−1 from the Ψ-band centre.
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COWLING, T. Hitherto Unidentified Absorption Bands of Water Vapour. Nature 152, 694 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152694a0
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