{"title":"Intensity of the H2O2 v6(b) Band at 1266 cm−1.","authors":"F. Valero, D. Goorvitch, F. Bonomo, R. Boese","doi":"10.1364/sam.1980.wp9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/sam.1980.wp9","url":null,"abstract":"The hydrogen atom radicals (H, OH, HO2 and H2O2) are probably the least understood of the atmospheric trace constituents. An effort is necessary to obtain a more detailed knowledge of the behavior of the hydrogen radicals and their close relative H2O2. The hydrogen gases were proposed as ozone-destructive agents in air long before the discovery of nitrogen oxides as similar agents.","PeriodicalId":199214,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Spectroscopy in Support of Atmospheric Measurements","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116217514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atmospheric Problems in the Stratosphere and Mesosphere","authors":"R. Hudson","doi":"10.1364/sam.1980.ma4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/sam.1980.ma4","url":null,"abstract":"Considerable interest has been engendered both within the scientific community and within the general public on the effects of anthropogenic disturbances on the stratosphere. The fact that life on the earth's surface depends upon a rather small amount of ozone in the stratosphere has been known for some time. This ozone layer filters harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching the earth and life as we know it has developed within these restraints. It is only recently, however, that scientists have understood that the amount of ozone in the stratosphere is controlled by trace amounts of substances other than ozone. These substances can be roughly broken down into families, the nitrogen, oxygen, chlorine, hydrogen and sulfur families. The concern is as to whether human activities can add significantly to the natural trace substances in the stratosphere and affect the balance of ozone.","PeriodicalId":199214,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Spectroscopy in Support of Atmospheric Measurements","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116682609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Xe Laser Source for Atmospheric Transmission Measurements in the Atmospheric Windows from 2 to 12 Microns","authors":"R. F. Horton, E. Damon","doi":"10.1364/sam.1980.tup23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/sam.1980.tup23","url":null,"abstract":"From 1971 to the present, NRL has been involved in making absolute atmospheric transmission measurements at laser wavelengths over long natural paths, typically five kilometers. These measurements have been reported directly, along with relevant meterological parameters, or have been used to calibrate high resolution spectra obtained concurrently.1","PeriodicalId":199214,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Spectroscopy in Support of Atmospheric Measurements","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121811094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laboratory Studies of Absorption Line Strengths","authors":"R. H. Hunt","doi":"10.1364/sam.1980.tub1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/sam.1980.tub1","url":null,"abstract":"Recent and planned spectroscopic studies of our atmosphere stress the observation of individual molecular absorption or emission lines at the highest possible resolution. Such studies presume the availability of accurately measured line positions, strengths, and widths for the various molecules involved as determined from laboratory data. The determination of line widths and positions are the subject of other papers at this meeting. A discussion of some of the approaches to line strength measurements in the laboratory and the interpretation of such measurements form the subject of the present paper.","PeriodicalId":199214,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Spectroscopy in Support of Atmospheric Measurements","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122940669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tunable Diode Laser Sulfuric Acid Stack Monitoring System","authors":"E. F. Pearson, A. Mantz","doi":"10.1364/sam.1980.tup26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/sam.1980.tup26","url":null,"abstract":"A two frequency tunable diode laser system has been constructed for the purpose of monitoring sulfuric acid emissions in stacks of electric power plants where high sulfur content or oil are consumed.\u0000 The system is digitally controlled and self-calibrating in units of parts per million meter of sulfuric acid concentration.\u0000 The system will be described and laboratory stability test results will be presented.","PeriodicalId":199214,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Spectroscopy in Support of Atmospheric Measurements","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128082876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectroscopy in Radiometry","authors":"J. Gille","doi":"10.1364/sam.1980.mb1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/sam.1980.mb1","url":null,"abstract":"Parameterized line-by-line calculations are often used to interpret accurate radiometric measurements. These require line parameters with temperature dependencies, line shapes and other information.","PeriodicalId":199214,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Spectroscopy in Support of Atmospheric Measurements","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115119611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High Resolution Photoelectric VUV Cross Section Measurements of Atmospheric Molecules","authors":"K. Yoshino, D. E. Freeman, W. Parkinson","doi":"10.1364/sam.1980.wp24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/sam.1980.wp24","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate cross sections of the Schumann-Runge (S-R) bands of O2 are needed to determine the opacity of the atmosphere to solar radiation that causes the dissociation of stratospheric constituents such as NO. In particular, the principal photodissociation processes for NO occur in the δ(0,0) and δ(1,0) bands near 191 and 183 nm, respectively; the former is in the range of the S-R (5,0) band, and the latter is in the range of the S-R (9,0) and (10,0) bands. Detailed cross section measurements that resolve the rotational structure of these bands are necessary for the calculation of predissociation rates. However, the determination of accurate cross sections is straight-forward only if the instrumental band width is small compared with the line width being measured. The true cross section of rotationally discrete lines may vary significantly over the instrumental band width, and this can lead to seriously underestimated peak cross sections and distorted line profiles. The two experimental conditions required for cross section measurements of high accuracy for such molecules are the attainment of the highest possible spectroscopic resolution and the use of photoelectric rather than photographic detection.","PeriodicalId":199214,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Spectroscopy in Support of Atmospheric Measurements","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122928661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Line-Width Data on Retrievals of Gas Concentrations in Limb-Viewing Experiments","authors":"M. H. Smith, J. M. Russell, L. Gordley","doi":"10.1364/sam.1980.tup24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/sam.1980.tup24","url":null,"abstract":"It has long been understood that accurate knowledge of collision-broadened halfwidths is necessary for infrared remote sensing of stratospheric minor gases. A careful examination of the curve of growth for typical stratospheric absorption lines indicates that for limb-viewing experiments, the long geometric paths through the atmosphere may result in higher sensitivity to collision broadening, relative to that of nadir-viewing experiments. Unfortunately, efforts in laboratory spectroscopy have usually been concentrated on obtaining line positions, strengths, and assignments, while the more difficult halfwidth measurements have been made very infrequently. In this paper, we present the results of halfwidth-sensitivity studies for ozone retrievals from typical limb-viewing absorption or emission experiments using both high-resolution spectroscopy and broad-band radiometric techniques.","PeriodicalId":199214,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Spectroscopy in Support of Atmospheric Measurements","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124128886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Active Techniques","authors":"M. Chanin","doi":"10.1364/sam.1980.mb5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/sam.1980.mb5","url":null,"abstract":"Different processes of interaction of a laser beam with the atmosphere and requirements from spectroscopy data to increase the possibilities of the Lidar technique.","PeriodicalId":199214,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Spectroscopy in Support of Atmospheric Measurements","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126281648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Dezafra, J. Barrett, A. Parrish, P. Solomon, E. Carlson
{"title":"Ground-Based mm-Wave Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Stratospheric Chlorine Oxide","authors":"R. Dezafra, J. Barrett, A. Parrish, P. Solomon, E. Carlson","doi":"10.1364/sam.1980.tup4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/sam.1980.tup4","url":null,"abstract":"Chlorine oxide, formed in the catalytic cycle is an important monitor of the conversion of ozone to O2 by free chlorine in the stratosphere. Current models predict mixing ratios for CℓO peaking at a value < 1:109 near 35 km altitude (1), and model profiles give an integrated column density towards the zenith of < 2.5 × 1014 cm-2, making radiometric detection of emission lines extremely difficult through the intervening atmosphere. Heretofore, experimental detection has relied on balloon-born in-situ measurements (2) or on attempts at remote mm-wave (3) or IR detection (4) from high-flying aircraft or balloon platforms. We have developed and successfully used a ground-based mm-wave spectrometer employing some novel features to detect the J = 11/2 → 9/2 rotational transition of CℓO in emission at 204.352 GHz. Our observations were conducted near Amherst, Mass, (elevation ~ 300 m) above sea level) during the period mid-January to mid-April 1980.","PeriodicalId":199214,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Spectroscopy in Support of Atmospheric Measurements","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125736991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}