Water vapour self-continuum and water dimers: 1. Analysis of recent work

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1286-1303

  Ptashnik, I V ^a,b   Shine, K P ^a   Vigasin, A A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

^c OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bimolecular absorption; Collision induced absorption; Dimerisation equilibrium constant; Partitioning in phase space; True bound and quasi bound dimers; Water vapour continuum

Indexed keywords

BIMOLECULAR ABSORPTION; COLLISION-INDUCED ABSORPTION; DIMERISATION EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; PARTITIONING IN PHASE SPACE; TRUE BOUND AND QUASI-BOUND DIMERS; WATER VAPOUR CONTINUUM;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; INFRARED DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOMERS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WATER ABSORPTION;

DIMERS;

ABSORPTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTITIONING; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 79952901654     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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