Calculation of the water vapor line intensities for rotational transitions between high-excited energy levels

The intensities of water vapor in the range of pure rotational transitions were calculated up to high quantum numbers (Jmax ~ 30 and Ka max ~ 25). The diagonalization of the effective rotational Hamiltonian, approximated by Pade-Borel method, is applied to obtain the eigenvectors. The centrifugal distortion perturbations in line intensities were taken into account by the traditional equations for matrix elements of the transformed dipole moment, including eight parameters, and previously developed by authors Pade approximant. Moreover, to conduct the calculations, the rotational wavefunctions of the symmetric rotor molecule were applied. The results were compared with the known theoretical data. © (2015) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only