atmosphere.getDispersivePathLength - Function

4.1.1 get the integrated Atmospheric Dispersive Path
Description

Retrieve the integrated Atmospheric Path length (Dispersive part) along the atmospheric path corresponding to the 1st guess water column for channel nc in spectral window spwid.

Arguments





Inputs

nc

Channel number (0-based; defaults to reference channel)

allowed:

int

Default:

-1

spwid

Int standing for spectral window id (0-based)

allowed:

int

Default:

0

Returns
Quantity

Example

w = at.getStartupWaterContent()  
nb = 1  
fC = quantity([850.0],’GHz’)  
fW = quantity([0.5],’GHz’)  
nfR = quantity([0.5],’GHz’)  
at.initSpectralWindow(nb,fC,fW,fR)  
print "Total Dispersive Delay at ", fC.value, fC.units, " for 1.0 air mass: ", at.getDispersivePathLength().value /  w.value, " meters per mm of water vapor"  
print "(",100*(at.getDispersivePathLength().value /  w.value)/(at.getNonDispersivePathLength().value / w.value), "% of the Non-dispersive one )"  

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