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First CRDS-measurements of water vapour continuum in the 940 nm absorption band

✍ Scribed by L. Reichert; M.D. Andrés Hernández; J.P. Burrows; A.B. Tikhomirov; K.M. Firsov; I.V. Ptashnik


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
242 KB
Volume
105
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-4073

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✦ Synopsis


Measurements of near-infrared water vapour continuum using continuous wave cavity ring down spectroscopy (cw-CRDS) have been performed at around 10611.6 and 10685:2 cm À1 . The continuum absorption coefficients for N 2broadening have been determined to be C 296 K F ¼ ð1:0 AE 0:2Þ Â 10 À24 cm 2 mol À1 atm À1 and C 278 K F ¼ ð1:8 AE 0:4Þ Â 10 À24 cm 2 mol À1 atm À1 at 10611:6 cm À1 , and C 296 K F ¼ ð1:6 AE 0:5Þ Â 10 À24 cm 2 mol À1 atm À1 and C 278 K F ¼ ð2:1 AE 0:4Þ Â 10 À24 cm 2 mol À1 atm À1 at 10685:2 cm À1 , respectively.

These results represent the first near-IR continuum laboratory data determined within the complex spectral environment in the 940 nm water vapour band and are in reasonable agreement with simulations using the semiempirical CKD formulation.