A MOLECULAR LINE SHAPE FORMULATION: APPLICATION TO ATMOSPHERIC CONTINUUM
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1984
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Ohio State University
Abstract
A spectral line shape formulation will be developed in the context of the dipole autocorrelation function. The relationship of this approach with commonly used impact line shapes will be discussed as well as implications with respect to the far line wings associated with continuum absorption due to water vapor. A theory, which satisfies detail balance and which treats the isotropic part of the collisional physics exactly and the anistropic part through perturbation theory, will be outlined.
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Author Institution: Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (OPI), Hanscom AFB; GTE Laboratories, Inc., Waltham; Dept. of Physics, University of Alabama