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The effect is considered of the presence of water vapour in the optical path of a spectrometer used to measure absorption by atmospheric water vapour. If such possible contamination is ignored, the water vapour mixing‐ratio profiles deduced from the measurements will show increasing mixing‐ratio with altitude in the stratosphere.
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J. T. Houghton (1966) studied this question.
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