Water vapour foreign-continuum absorption in near-infrared windows from laboratory measurements

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1968, 2012, Pages 2557-2577

  Ptashnik, Igor V ^a,c   McPheat, Robert A ^b   Shine, Keith P ^a   Smith, Kevin M ^b   Gary Williams, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ^*  (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Atmospheric windows; Bimolecular complexes; Collision induced absorption; MTCKD continuum; Water vapour continuum

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SOLAR RADIATION; VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERIC WINDOW; BIMOLECULAR COMPLEXES; COLLISION-INDUCED ABSORPTION; MTCKD CONTINUUM; WATER VAPOUR;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 84860606474     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0218     Document Type: Article

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