The water vapour self-and water-nitrogen continuum absorption in the 1000 and 2500 cm-1 atmospheric windows

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

Volumn 370, Issue 1968, 2012, Pages 2578-2589

  Baranov, Yu I ^a,b   Lafferty, W J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Institute of Experimental Meteorology Science and Production Association   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Atmospheric windows; Laboratory measurements; Water vapour continuum

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NITROGEN; VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERIC WINDOW; BAND INTENSITY; COLLISION-INDUCED ABSORPTION; CONTINUUM MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROMETER; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MULTIPASS CELL; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PURE WATER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER VAPOUR;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 84860616103     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0234     Document Type: Review

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