SUMMARYHigh-spectral-resolution thermal infrared radiance observations made with the Airborne Research Interferometer Evaluation System instrument on the Met Of ce C130 aircraft in tropical and sub-arctic atmospheres are used to evaluate the water vapour continuum and line absorption. Coincident microwave radiometer measurements at 183 GHz are used to help constrain the water vapour pro le. Through careful selection of wavelengths where the water vapour continuum has varying impacts on the observed radiances, analysis shows that the continuum is too strong; this is using the General Line-by-line Atmospheric Transmittance and Radiance Model with the CKD2.4 water vapour continuum and High Resolution Transmission Molecular Absorption 2000 spectral database. Zenith observations from low altitude indicate that the continuum requires reducing by between 6% and 15% depending on the frequency, which is in good agreement with recent laboratory data. A modi ed continuum is presented and used in modelling to compare against upper-troposphere nadir measurements obtained in tropical and sub-arctic atmospheres.

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SynopsisThis reflective essay investigates the relationship between, on the one hand, my own creative practice and, on the other, cosmological discoveries, both old and new. It presents, contextualises and discusses a series of poems from my new collection, Musicolepsy (Shoestring Press, 2013), all of which, in very different ways, negotiate and explore the linguistic boundaries and overlaps between poetry and cosmology.Specifically, poetry provides a space in which the sometimes casual, sometimes deep-rooted analogies, metaphors and allusions of popular scientific discourse can be probed, dissected, stretched or exploded. In this way, poetry itself might be seen to embody a kind of pseudo-scientific sphere of experimentation, when applied to scientific language.

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