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Table 2

Precipitable water vapour values (in mm PWV at zenith).

Date and time GDAS MM5 ESOa
(UT) predicted fitted predicted fitted predicted

2006-10-10 03:00 1.8 0.8 1.8 0.8 1.9
2007-03-01 06:00 5.3 2.6 3.1
2007-03-03 09:00 4.1 1.6 2.4 1.6 1.2
2007-03-05 06:00 10.8 8.6 3.9
2007-04-22 09:00 9.6 7.2 2.5
2007-05-10 01:00 2.0 0.4b 3.0
2008-02-29 09:00 3.6 2.2 2.8

Notes.

(a)

Prediction for Paranal Observatory, based on satellite measurements. Obtained from http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/pubs/astclim/forecast/meteo/ERASMUS/.

(b)

PWV determined from water vapour lines not shown in Fig. 10.

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