The effects of changes in HITRAN and uncertainties in the spectroscopy on infrared irradiance calculations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1950-1964

  Pinnock, Simon ^a   Shine, Keith P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRADIANCE; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 0031826578     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<1950:TEOCIH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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