Gordon, IE;
Rothman, LS;
Hill, C;
Kochanov, RV;
Tan, Y;
Bernath, PF;
Birk, M;
... Zak, EJ; + view all
(2017)
The HITRAN2016 molecular spectroscopic database.
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
, 203
pp. 3-69.
10.1016/j.jqsrt.2017.06.038.
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Abstract
This paper describes the contents of the 2016 edition of the HITRAN molecular spectroscopic compilation. The new edition replaces the previous HITRAN edition of 2012 and its updates during the intervening years. The HITRAN molecular absorption compilation is composed of five major components: the traditional line-by-line spectroscopic parameters required for high-resolution radiative-transfer codes, infrared absorption cross-sections for molecules not yet amenable to representation in a line-by-line form, collision-induced absorption data, aerosol indices of refraction, and general tables such as partition sums that apply globally to the data. The new HITRAN is greatly extended in terms of accuracy, spectral coverage, additional absorption phenomena, added line-shape formalisms, and validity. Moreover, molecules, isotopologues, and perturbing gases have been added that address the issues of atmospheres beyond the Earth. Of considerable note, experimental IR cross-sections for almost 300 additional molecules important in different areas of atmospheric science have been added to the database. The compilation can be accessed through www.hitran.org. Most of the HITRAN data have now been cast into an underlying relational database structure that offers many advantages over the long-standing sequential text-based structure. The new structure empowers the user in many ways. It enables the incorporation of an extended set of fundamental parameters per transition, sophisticated line-shape formalisms, easy user-defined output formats, and very convenient searching, filtering, and plotting of data. A powerful application programming interface making use of structured query language (SQL) features for higher-level applications of HITRAN is also provided.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The HITRAN2016 molecular spectroscopic database |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2017.06.038 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2017.06.038 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | HITRAN, Spectroscopic database, Molecular spectroscopy, Molecular absorption, Spectroscopic line parameters, Absorption cross-sections, Collision-induced absorption, Aerosols |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1573605 |
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