Weakly Interacting Molecular Pairs: Unconventional Absorbers of Radiation in the Atmosphere

Preface. Contributing Authors. I: Theory. Spectra of two- and three-body van der Waals complexes; M. Gustafsson, L. Frommhold. Bimolecular absorption in atmospheric gases; A.A. Vigasin. Trajectory study of CO2 Ar and CO2 He collision complexes; S.V. Ivanov. Theoretical study of interaction potential and pressure broadening of spectral lines for the He CH3F complex; B. Bussery-Honvault, J. Boissoles, R. Moszynski. Variational solution of anharmonic vibrational problems for polyatomics and molecular pairs; A.I. Pavlyuchko, et al. Interference effects in the infrared spectrum of HD; G.C. Tabisz. Collision-induced absorption in dipolar molecule-homonuclear diatomic pairs; A. Brown, R.H. Tipping. Clustering, saturated vapors, and the atmosphere: the (H2O) n, H2O N2 and H2O O2 cases; Z. Slanina, F. Uhlík. Equilibrium constants for the formation of weakly bound dimers; A.A. Vigasin. Collision induced far wings of CO2 and H2O bands in IR spectra; M.V. Tonkov, N.N. Filippov. Far-wing line shapes: application to the water continuum; R.H. Tipping, Q. Ma. II: Laboratory Studies. Collision-induced absorption in the CO2 Fermi triad for temperatures from 211 K to 296 K; Y.I. Baranov, G.T. Fraser, W.J. Lafferty, A.A. Vigasin. Laboratory studies of oxygen continuum absorption; Y.I. Baranov, G.T. Fraser, W.J. Lafferty, B. Maté, A.A. Vigasin. Molecular beam scattering experiments on species of atmospheric relevance: potential energy surfaces for clusters and quantum mechanical prediction of spectral features; V. Aquilanti, M. Bartolomei, D. Cappelletti, E. Carmona-Novillo, E. Cornicchi, M. Moix-Teixidor, M. Sabidó, F.Pirani. Collision-induced absorption of gaseous oxygen in the Herzberg continuum; M.B. Kiseleva, G.Ya. Zelikina, M.V. Buturlimova, A.P. Burtsev. Absorption cross-section of the collision-induced bands of oxygen from the UV to the NIR; C. Hermans, A.C. Vandaele, S. Fally, M. Carleer, R. Colin, B. Coquart, A. Jenouvrier, M.-F. Merienne.. Cavity ring-down spectroscopy of O2 O2 collisional induced absorption; M. Sneep, W. Ubachs. Laboratory Fourier-transform spectroscopy of the water absorption continuum from 2500 to 22500 cm 1; M. Carleer, M. Kiseleva, S. Fally, P.-F. Coheur, C. Clerbaux, R. Colin, L. Daumont, A. Jenouvrier, M.-F. Merienne, C. Hermans, A.C. Vandaele. Infrared spectra of weakly-bound complexes and collision-induced effects involving atmospheric molecules; A.R.W. McKellar. The far-infrared continuum in the spectrum of water vapor; X. Wang, A. Senchuk, G.C. Tabisz. Resonator spectroscopy as a new method of investigation of unconventional millimeter-wave atmospheric absorbers; A.A. Shvetsov, M.Y. Tretyakov, M.A. Koshelev, A.F. Krupnov, V.V. Parshin. III: Atmospheric Applications. Look-up table and interpolation methods for radiative transfer calculations in the infrared application to balloon and satellite spectra; M. Eremenko, S. Payan, S. Payan, Y. Té, G. Dufour, V. Ferreira, P. Jeseck, C. Camy-Peyret, A. Mitsel. The impact of new water vapor spectroscopy on satellite retrievals; A.N. Maurellis, R. Lang, J.E. Williams, W.J. van der Zande, K. Smith, D.A. Newnham, J. Tennyson, R.N. Tolchenov. Spectroscopic and thermochemical information on the O2 O2 collisional complex inferred from atmospheric UV/visible O4 absorption band profile measurements; K. Pfeilsticker, H. Bösch, R.