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No Nitrogen available : AUTO mode

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)

\begin{displaymath}Trec = \frac{T_{load} * Mean\_atm - T_{emi} * Mean\_load}
{Mean\_load - Mean\_atm}
\end{displaymath} (11)

This is what happens in OBS when used in AUTO mode (specified by OBS $\backslash$SET CAL AUTO) and when you do a CAL command without the argument COLD.



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2002-02-04