An improved treatment of overlapping absorption bands based on the correlated k distribution model for thermal infrared radiative transfer calculations

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 435-451

  Shi, Guangyu ^a   Xu, Na ^a   Wang, Biao ^a   Dai, Tie ^a   Zhao, Jianqi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Correlated k distribution; Gaseous overlapping absorption; Radiative calculation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION BANDS; COOLING RATES; CORRELATED K DISTRIBUTION; FLUX DIFFERENCES; GASEOUS MIXTURES; GASEOUS OVERLAPPING ABSORPTION; LINE-BY-LINE INTEGRATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPERATING SPEED; OVERLAPPING BANDS; RADIATIVE CALCULATION; SPECTRAL CORRELATIONS; THERMAL INFRARED; THERMAL INFRARED REGIONS;

COOLING;

GAS ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 63949085420     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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