Published January 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Pressure broadening coefficients of the water vapor lines at 556.936 and 752.033 GHz

  • 1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 4-2-1 Nukui-kita, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795 (Japan)
  • 2. RIKEN, 519-1399 Aoba, Aramaki Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0845 (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm (Sweden)
  • 4. Department of Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Hoersalsvaegen 11, SE-412 96 Goeteborg (Sweden)

Description

The air induced broadening coefficients of the pure rotational transitions of H2O at 556.936 GHz (110 <- 101), and 752.033 GHz (211 <- 202) were measured by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. The air broadening coefficient was determined to be 4.012(30)MHzTorr-1 for the 556.936 GHz line and 3.964(40)MHzTorr-1 for the 752.033 GHz line, respectively. The present broadening coefficients for the 556.936 GHz water line are significantly smaller than those of Markov and Krupnov [Measurements of the pressure shift of the 1(10)-1(01) water line at 556.936 GHz produced by mixtures of gases. J Mol Spect 1995:172;211-4] but relatively close to the values of the HITRAN database. The measured data may improve the accuracy of the abundance of water vapor retrieved from spectra obtained by the Odin/SMR satellite instrument. The effect on the satellite retrieval processing is discussed

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.06.004

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.06.004;
PII
S0022-4073(07)00169-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 144-150
ISSN
0022-4073
CODEN
JQSRAE

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39094140
Subject category
S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY;
Descriptors DEI
ACCURACY; GHZ RANGE; LINE BROADENING; MARKOV PROCESS; MIXTURES; SPECTRA; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER; WATER VAPOR
Descriptors DEC
DISPERSIONS; FLUIDS; FREQUENCY RANGE; GASES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VAPORS

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