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
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High accuracy CO2 line intensities determined from theory and experiment
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, Oleg L. Polyansky, Katarzyna E. Bielska, , Lorenzo Lodi, N Zobov, Jonathan Tennyson
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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.Citation
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carbon dioxide, greenhouse gas, ab initio calculations, cavity ring-down spectroscopy, line intensity, dipole moment surface
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