Development and recent evaluation of the MT-CKD model of continuum absorption

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

Volumn 370, Issue 1968, 2012, Pages 2520-2556

  Mlawer, Eli J ^a   Payne, Vivienne H ^a,c   Moncet, Jean Luc ^a   Delamere, Jennifer S ^a,d   Alvarado, Matthew J ^a   Tobin, David C ^b  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d TECH X CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption; Radiances; Radiation; Satellite; Water vapour continuum

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION COOLING; HEAT RADIATION; MOLECULES; MONOMERS; SATELLITES; VAPORS;

CONTINUUM ABSORPTION MODELS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LINE SHAPE; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; QUALITY ANALYSIS; RADIANCES; RADIATIVE COOLING; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; SPECTRAL REGION; SPECTRAL SHAPES; TWO-COMPONENT; WATER VAPOUR; WEAK INTERACTIONS;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 84860637612     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0295     Document Type: Article

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