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High accuracy CO2 line intensities determined from theory and experiment

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Joseph T. Hodges, Oleg L. Polyansky, Katarzyna E. Bielska, Melanie C. Ghysels, Lorenzo Lodi, N Zobov, Jonathan Tennyson

Abstract

The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), with its consequences for the greenhouse effect and climate change, is being closely monitored by a variety of space-borne and ground-based remote sensing experiments. These experiments require a relative uncertainty of 0.5 % or better for CO2 line absorption intensities. Here we report a joint experimental and theoretical study providing rotation-vibration line intensities with this precision. The ab initio quantum mechanical calculations are extendible to all atmospherically important bands of CO2 and to its isotopically substituted variants.
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Science

Keywords

carbon dioxide, greenhouse gas, ab initio calculations, cavity ring-down spectroscopy, line intensity, dipole moment surface

Citation

Hodges, J. , Polyansky, O. , Bielska, K. , Ghysels, M. , Lodi, L. , Zobov, N. and Tennyson, J. (2015), High accuracy CO2 line intensities determined from theory and experiment, Science, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.243001 (Accessed October 9, 2024)

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Created June 15, 2015, Updated November 10, 2018