ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Numerous comparisons between predictions of the model presented in part I of this paper and experimental H2O infrared linewidths are presented. It is shown that our model, contrary to those used up to now, gives accurate results for H2O room-temperature line broadening by O2 and Ar, and for high rotational quantum-number lines by N2. First accurate experimental widths and intensities of some H2O ν2-band lines in the 400–900 K temperature range are also presented. Detailed analysis of the data demonstrates the great influence of a "resonance overtaking'' mechanism. The latter results from the modifications of both the perturber rovibrational population distribution and kinetic energy with temperature; it strongly enhances the contributions of the collision-induced rotational transitions involving significant energy jumps. This mechanism is well accounted for by our model and quantitatively explains the unusually slow decrease of some linewidths with temperature.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.452605
