The water vapour continuum in near-infrared windows – Current understanding and prospects for its inclusion in spectroscopic databases

Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy

Volumn 327, Issue , 2016, Pages 193-208

  Shine, Keith P ^a   Campargue, Alain ^b,c   Mondelain, Didier ^b,c   McPheat, Robert A ^d   Ptashnik, Igor V ^e   Weidmann, Damien ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c LIPHY   (France)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Absorption continuum; MT_CKD model; Water dimer; Water vapour

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FEEDBACK; INFRARED DEVICES; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; LASER WINDOWS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WATER VAPOR;

ABSORPTION CONTINUUM; CAVITY RING DOWN SPECTROSCOPIES; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; SPECTROSCOPIC DATABASE; WATER DIMERS; WATER VAPOUR; WATER VAPOUR CONTINUUMS;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 84965036052     PISSN: 00222852     EISSN: 1096083X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2016.04.011     Document Type: Article

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