Water line parameters for weak lines in the range 9,000–12,700 cm-1

A total of 7923 transitions previously derived from long pathlength, Fourier transform spectra of pure water vapor (Schermaul et al., J. Mol. Spectrosc. 211 (2002) 169) have been refitted and reanalyzed using a newly calculated variational linelist. Of these, 6600 lines are weaker than 1 × 10−24 cm/molecule, for which reliable intensities are obtained. These weak lines include 1082 lines, largely due to H216O, which have not been previously observed. A total of 7156 lines were assigned resulting in 329 new energy levels for H216O spread over 32 vibrational levels. Estimates are also given for the band origins of the (022), (140), and (051) vibrational states

Line parameter validation using ground-based solar occultation measurements: Water vapor--A case study

Item does not contain fulltextWater vapor spectroscopy data for the 720 nm absorption band (4[nu] polyad) are validated in the context of atmospheric radiative transfer calculations. We validate line parameters from the HITRAN-2000 database and from the ULB-UFR-BIRA database which have been used for the 2004 release of HITRAN. For this purpose, ground-based high resolution observations of the direct solar radiation are compared with simulated spectra. Line parameters are selected for validation based on a full error characterization including instrument noise and uncertainties in the atmospheric profile data. For a subset of the line parameters validated in the present study independent high-accuracy data are available. The comparison with these independent reference data confirms the capability of our approach to improve water vapor spectroscopic data

The global variation of CH4 and CO as seen by SCIAMACHY

The methane (CH4) and carbon monoxide (CO) total columns retrieved from SCIAMACHY's near-infrared channel 8 have been compared to satellite measurements by the MOPITT instrument and chemistry transport model calculations (TM3). Results from the SRON retrieval algorithm IMLM (v5.1) are presented here for the month of February 2004. First results show that these monthly averaged data are in good agreement with TM3 model calculations and the measurements by the MOPITT instrument. (c) 2005 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved