Another alternative is to assume that you know the water vapor
content, either from a previous measurement and assuming the
weather is stable, or from theoretical curves as a function
of pressure, temperature and relative humidity. With the
knowledge of the atmospheric parameters, the model
predicts Tsky and Tau.
In this mode, instead of Trec above, you must supply Water
the amount of precipitable water vapor in millimeter.
Trec is then given by (from Eq. 7)
| (11) |
This is what happens in OBS when used in AUTO mode (specified by
OBS
SET CAL AUTO) and when you do a CAL command
without the argument COLD.