Water Vapor Assessment (WAVAS)

This webpage gives access to the WAVAS archive. The WAVAS archive includes a number of H2O data sets from international aircraft campaigns, ground-based in-situ measurements, and satellite data. Some of these data are still experimental and have not been published. Public data are available on CEDA and can be accessed anonymously via:

sparc-ftp.ceda.ac.uk/sparc/wavas

Please use an ftp client such as FileZilla to connect to the ftp server as many browsers, including chrome, no longer support urls using the ftp protocol.

Further information on WAVAS including SPARC Report No. 2 can be found here.

Public H2O Data

Airborne Instruments
Instrument Source Country Contact
AMSOS Uni-Berne Switzerland D. Feist
FIR SAO U.S.A. D.G. Johnson
Frost-point Hygrometer CNRS France J. Ovarlez
Frost-point Hygrometer NOAA-CMDL U.S.A. S. Oltmans
Lyman-α NOAA-AL U.S.A. K. Rosenlof
Lyman-α Harvard U.S.A. J. Smith
Lyman-α FZ-Juelich Germany C. Schiller
Mark IV NASA-JPL U.S.A. G.C. Toon
MIPAS-B FZ-Karlsruhe Germany H. Oelhaf
TDL NASA-JPL U.S.A. R.D. May
TDL NASA-LARC U.S.A. G.W. Sachse
Satellite Instruments (including Shuttle)
ATMOS NASA-JPL U.S.A. H.A. Michelsen
HALOE NASA-LaRC U.S.A. J.M. Russell III
LIMS NASA-LaRC U.S.A. E.E. Remsberg
MAS NRL U.S.A. R. Bevilacqua
MLS U. Edinburgh Scotland H.C. Pumphrey
MLS-UTH NASA-JPL U.S.A. J.W.Waters
POAM-III NRL U.S.A. R. Bevilacqua
SAGE-II NASA-LaRC U.S.A. E. Chiou
TOVS NOAA-ETL U.S.A. J.J. Bates
Ground-based Instruments
Ground-based Microwave MPI-Aeronomy Germany P. Harthough
Raman lidar OHP France V. Sherlock
WVMS NRL U.S.A. G. Nedoluha