Articles | Volume 20, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10015-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10015-2020
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27 Aug 2020
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A semi-empirical potential energy surface and line list for H216O extending into the near-ultraviolet

Eamon K. Conway, Iouli E. Gordon, Jonathan Tennyson, Oleg L. Polyansky, Sergei N. Yurchenko, and Kelly Chance

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Water vapour has a complex spectrum and absorbs from the microwave to the near-UV where it dissociates. There is limited knowledge of the absorption features in the near-UV, and there is a large disagreement for the available models and experiments. We created a new ab initio model that is in good agreement with observation at 363 nm. At lower wavelengths, our calculations suggest that the latest experiments overestimate absorption. This has implications for trace gas retrievals in the near-UV.
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