Infrared absorption cross-sections in HITRAN2016 and beyond: expansion for climate, environment, and atmospheric applications

Kochanov, R.V., Gordon, I. E., Rothman, L. S., Shine, K. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2672-9978, Sharpe, S. W., Johnson, T. J., Wallington, T. J., Harrison, J. J., Bernath, P. F., Birk, M., Wagner, G., Le Bris, K., Bravo, I. and Hill, C. (2019) Infrared absorption cross-sections in HITRAN2016 and beyond: expansion for climate, environment, and atmospheric applications. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 230. pp. 172-221. ISSN 0022-4073 doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2019.04.001

Abstract/Summary

Spectroscopic analysis of hydrocarbons, halocarbons and related species is required in atmospheric applications such as climate-change research, tracking of pollution and biomass burning, and remote sensing. Critically evaluated line-by-line spectroscopic data are needed for such analyses. To address this need we report the large addition of spectra to the HITRAN2016 database. This extension increases the number of molecules in the database by almost a factor of 6 from that in HITRAN2012. Spectra from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory database (Appl. Spectrosc. 2004;58:1452–61) and the Hodnebrog et al. compilation (Rev Geophys 2013;51:300–78) have been integrated into HITRAN2016. Spectra from high-resolution laboratory observations, predominantly from Fourier transform spectrometers, are now provided for 328 compounds in the IR spectral range. Spectra for atmospherically-important compounds organized by chemical category are presented. The HITRAN infrastructure (www.hitran.org), HITRAN Application Programming Interface (HAPI), and best practices for searching and downloading data are discussed.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/83089
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.jqsrt.2019.04.001
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher	Elsevier
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