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Recent Results on Infrared Molecular Line Broadening and Shift Parameters

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Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere for Environmental Security

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Infrared instruments designed to monitor atmospheric pollutants from space use observed radiances in specific spectral regions for retrievals of global distributions and atmospheric concentration profiles of the gases of interest, including CO, CH4, O3, HCN, NO2 and H2O. However, particularly for the troposphere, errors in the spectral line broadening and shift parameters and in the line shape models used in the “forward calculation” can contribute significantly to the total errors in retrievals of atmospheric gas concentration profiles. Line parameters in the HITRAN database for many of the gases mentioned above were significantly updated in the 2000 and 2004 editions. Nevertheless, uncertainties remain in some spectral regions, particularly in the understanding of line shapes, line mixing, and the temperature dependences of line broadening and shift parameters. The recent updates of broadening and shift parameters in the spectroscopic databases are reviewed, and new laboratory results are discussed.

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    Mary Ann H. Smith

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  2. Laboratoire de Spectronomie, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences de Rabat, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco

    Najate Ben Sari-Zizi

  3. Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, UMR CNRS, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    Jean Demaison

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Smith, M.A.H. (2006). Recent Results on Infrared Molecular Line Broadening and Shift Parameters. In: Perrin, A., Ben Sari-Zizi, N., Demaison, J. (eds) Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere for Environmental Security. NATO Security through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5090-9_12

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