On the anomalies and role of water clusters in atmospheric absorption of millimeter and submillimeter radio waves

Experimental data are presented which do not confirm the existence of anomalies observed by many investigators in the atmospheric absorption of millimeter and submillimeter radio waves and make questionable the hypothesis on the importance of large water clusters in absorption that is invoked to explain the anomalies.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 483–495, April, 1996.This work was supported in part by the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research under Project No. 94-02-05407-a).