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Although reducing gravity would expand the atmosphere, it would not change the number of molecules in it, which is the only factor relevant to Beer's Law governing absorption by the atmosphere of radiation at each wavelength. A less direct way of arriving at the same result is to use the...

I asked Jeff Kiehl (of Kiehl and Trenberth) this question a year ago and he replied that there have been large field campaigns that included ships, aircraft and satellites to measure the transport of water vapor, and that this is still a very great topic of research in the atmospheric sciences...