Analysis of Fourier transform spectra of N2O in the ν3 band for atmospheric composition retrievals

2018 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Predoi-Cross ◽  
Robab Hashemi ◽  
V. Malathy Devi ◽  
Hossein Naseri ◽  
Mary Ann H. Smith

We report measurement results for line positions, intensities, half-width, and pressure-induced shift coefficients and line mixing coefficients for N2O broadened by air in the ν3 band. The high signal-to-noise ratio spectra have been recorded at high resolution using the McMath–Pierce Fourier transform spectrometer formerly located at the National Solar Observatory on Kitt Peak, Ariz., USA. The spectra were analyzed using a multispectrum nonlinear least-squares curve-fitting technique employing the speed-dependent Voigt profile with a Rosenkranz (weak) line mixing component. The speed dependence parameters were calculated as suggested in the study of Kochanov (J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf. 189, 18 (2017). doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2016.11.007 ). Several comparisons have been performed between the retrieved parameters and previously published results. For |m| ≤ 40, our results for line positions, broadening, and line mixing coefficients agree best with the results of Loos et al. (J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf. 151, 300 (2015). doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2014.10.008 ). Also, we compared the obtained line positions and intensities with the corresponding values in HITRAN2016 and GEISA-2015 databases. No significant or systematic differences were noticed. The precision of our line positions was estimated to be 3 × 10−5 cm−1. The reported line positions, intensities, and air-broadening coefficients are accurate to better than 2%. The accuracy of air-pressure-induced line shifts and line mixing coefficients is better than 5%. The line mixing coefficients and air-broadening coefficients were also calculated using the exponential power gap scaling law, and these calculated values were found to be in good agreement with the experimental results.

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 962-965 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Deeley ◽  
I. M. Mills ◽  
L. O. Halonen ◽  
J. Kauppinen

High-resolution Fourier-transform infrared spectra have been recorded and analyzed for the ν4 ν5, and ν6 fundamental bands of trans-HONO, and for the ν4 fundamental of cis-HONO. The spectral resolution was better than 0.01 cm−1, and the rotational structure has been analyzed to give improved ground-state and excited-state rotational constants, with a standard deviation of the fit to the observed line positions of around 0.0006 cm−1. Two Coriolis interactions have been analyzed between the ν5 and ν6 bands of trans-HONO.


2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 499-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Chris Benner ◽  
C. E. Miller ◽  
V. Malathy Devi

We report the first extensive experimental measurements of Ar-broadened half-width and pressure-induced shift coefficients, speed dependence parameters, and line mixing coefficients for the 30013←00001 and 30012←00001 bands of 16O12C16O centered near 6227 and 6348 cm–1, respectively. These parameters were determined from 15 self-broadened and six Ar-broadened CO2 spectra recorded at room temperature with long absorption path lengths (25 to 121 m) using the McMath–Pierce Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) at the National Solar Observatory. All 21 spectra were fit simultaneously using a multispectrum nonlinear least-squares technique. The line positions and line intensities were constrained to quantum mechanical expressions to obtain maximum accuracies in the retrieved parameters. Speed-dependent line shapes with line mixing (via the relaxation matrix formalism) were required to remove systematic errors in the fit residuals using only the Voigt profile. Remaining fit residuals were minimized by adjusting the half-width and pressure-induced shift coefficients of the overlapping 31113←01101 and 31112←01101 hot bands. We compare the Ar-broadening parameters with those recently determined for self- and air-broadening in the 30012←00001 and 30013←00001 bands and also with other Ar-broadening values from the literature, as appropriate.


Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (13) ◽  
pp. 2506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunfeng Chen ◽  
Yue Chen ◽  
Xuping Feng ◽  
Xufeng Yang ◽  
Jinnuo Zhang ◽  
...  

The feasibility of using the fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic technique with a stacked sparse auto-encoder (SSAE) to identify orchid varieties was studied. Spectral data of 13 orchids varieties covering the spectral range of 4000–550 cm−1 were acquired to establish discriminant models and to select optimal spectral variables. K nearest neighbors (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), and SSAE models were built using full spectra. The SSAE model performed better than the KNN and SVM models and obtained a classification accuracy 99.4% in the calibration set and 97.9% in the prediction set. Then, three algorithms, principal component analysis loading (PCA-loading), competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), and stacked sparse auto-encoder guided backward (SSAE-GB), were used to select 39, 300, and 38 optimal wavenumbers, respectively. The KNN and SVM models were built based on optimal wavenumbers. Most of the optimal wavenumbers-based models performed slightly better than the all wavenumbers-based models. The performance of the SSAE-GB was better than the other two from the perspective of the accuracy of the discriminant models and the number of optimal wavenumbers. The results of this study showed that the FTIR spectroscopic technique combined with the SSAE algorithm could be adopted in the identification of the orchid varieties.


2018 ◽  
Vol 616 ◽  
pp. A82 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Proxauf ◽  
R. da Silva ◽  
V. V. Kovtyukh ◽  
G. Bono ◽  
L. Inno ◽  
...  

We gathered more than 1130 high-resolution optical spectra for more than 250 Galactic classical Cepheids. The spectra were collected with the optical spectrographs UVES at VLT, HARPS at 3.6 m, FEROS at 2.2 m MPG/ESO, and STELLA. To improve the effective temperature estimates, we present more than 150 new line depth ratio (LDR) calibrations that together with similar calibrations already available in the literature allowed us to cover a broad range in wavelength (5348 ≤ λ ≤ 8427 Å) and in effective temperature (3500 ≤ Teff ≤ 7700 K). This gives us the unique opportunity to cover both the hottest and coolest phases along the Cepheid pulsation cycle and to limit the intrinsic error on individual measurements at the level of ~100 K. As a consequence of the high signal-to-noise ratio of individual spectra, we identified and measured hundreds of neutral and ionized lines of heavy elements, and in turn, have the opportunity to trace the variation of both surface gravity and microturbulent velocity along the pulsation cycle. The accuracy of the physical parameters and the number of Fe I (more than one hundred) and Fe II (more than ten) lines measured allowed us to estimate mean iron abundances with a precision better than 0.1 dex. We focus on 14 calibrating Cepheids for which the current spectra cover either the entire or a significant portion of the pulsation cycle. The current estimates of the variation of the physical parameters along the pulsation cycle and of the iron abundances agree very well with similar estimates available in the literature. Independent homogeneous estimates of both physical parameters and metal abundances based on different approaches that can constrain possible systematics are highly encouraged.


2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 917-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Duflot ◽  
D. Hurtmans ◽  
L. Clarisse ◽  
Y. R'honi ◽  
C. Vigouroux ◽  
...  

Abstract. Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and acetylene (C2H2) are ubiquitous atmospheric trace gases with medium lifetime, which are frequently used as indicators of combustion sources and as tracers for atmospheric transport and chemistry. Because of their weak infrared absorption, overlapped by the CO2 Q branch near 720 cm−1, nadir sounders have up to now failed to measure these gases routinely. Taking into account CO2 line mixing, we provide for the first time extensive measurements of HCN and C2H2 total columns at Reunion Island (21° S, 55° E) and Jungfraujoch (46° N, 8° E) in 2009–2010 using observations from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI). A first order comparison with local ground-based Fourier transform infraRed (FTIR) measurements has been carried out allowing tests of seasonal consistency which is reasonably captured, except for HCN at Jungfraujoch. The IASI data shows a greater tendency to high C2H2 values. We also examine a nonspecific biomass burning plume over austral Africa and show that the emission ratios with respect to CO agree with previously reported values.


1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 1414-1419 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Winkel Jr. ◽  
Sumner P. Davis ◽  
Rubén Pecyner ◽  
James W. Brault

The infrared emission spectrum of carbon monosulfide was observed as a sequence of vibration–rotation bands in the X1Σ+ state, with strong heads of the Δν = 2 sequence degraded to the red. Eight bands of 12C32S were identified, and bands corresponding to the isotope 12C34S were also observed. The most prominent band head, that of the (2–0) band, is at 2585 cm−1, with the other heads spaced approximately 26 cm−1 to smaller wavenumbers. Our data, taken with the Fourier transform spectrometer at the National Solar Observatory (Kitt Peak) include the first reported laboratory observations of the band heads and as many as 200 lines in each band. These observations allowed the calculation of vibrational and rotational constants to higher order than previously reported.


2021 ◽  
Vol 253 ◽  
pp. 11012
Author(s):  
H. Imam

The particle flux increase (pile-up) at the HL-LHC with luminosities of L = 7.5 × 1034 cm−2 s−1 will have a significant impact on the reconstruction of the ATLAS detector and on the performance of the trigger. The forward region and the end-cap where the internal tracker has poorer longitudinal track impact parameter resolution, and where the liquid argon calorimeter has coarser granularity, will be significantly affected. A High Granularity Time Detector (HGTD) is proposed to be installed in front of the LAr end-cap calorimeter for the mitigation of the pileup effect, as well as measurement of luminosity. It will have coverage of 2.4 to 4.0 from the pseudo-rapidity range. Two dual-sided silicon sensor layers will provide accurate timing information for minimum-ionizing particles with a resolution better than 30 ps per track (before irradiation), for assigning each particle to the correct vertex. The readout cells are about 1.3 mm × 1.3 mm in size, which leads to a high granular detector with 3 million channels. The technology of low-gain avalanche detectors (LGAD) with sufficient gain was chosen to achieve the required high signal-to-noise ratio. A dedicated ASIC is under development with some prototypes already submitted and evaluated. The requirements and general specifications of the HGTD will be maintained and discussed. R&D campaigns on the LGAD are carried out to study the sensors, the related ASICs and the radiation hardness. Both laboratory and test beam results will be presented.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 5955-5976
Author(s):  
Masanori Takeda ◽  
Hideaki Nakajima ◽  
Isao Murata ◽  
Tomoo Nagahama ◽  
Isamu Morino ◽  
...  

Abstract. We have developed a procedure for retrieving atmospheric abundances of HFC-23 (CHF3) with a ground-based Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer and analyzed the spectra observed at Rikubetsu, Japan (43.5∘ N, 143.8∘ E), and at Syowa Station, Antarctica (69.0∘ S, 39.6∘ E). The FTIR retrievals were carried out with the SFIT4 retrieval program, and the two spectral windows of 1138.5–1148.0 cm−1 and 1154.0–1160.0 cm−1 in the overlapping ν2 and ν5 vibrational–rotational transition bands of HFC-23 were used to avoid strong H2O absorption features. We considered O3, N2O, CH4, H2O, HDO, CFC-12 (CCl2F2), HCFC-22 (CHClF2), peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) (CH3C(O)OONO2), HCFC-141b (CH3CCl2F), and HCFC-142b (CH3CClF2) to be interfering species. Vertical profiles of H2O, HDO, and CH4 are preliminarily retrieved with other independent spectral windows because these profiles may induce large uncertainties in the HFC-23 retrieval. Each HFC-23 retrieval has only one piece of vertical information with sensitivity to HFC-23 in the troposphere and the lower stratosphere. Retrieval errors mainly arise from the systematic uncertainties of the spectroscopic parameters used to obtain HFC-23, H2O, HDO, and CH4 abundances. For comparison between FTIR-retrieved HFC-23 total columns and surface dry-air mole fractions provided by AGAGE (Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment), FTIR-retrieved HFC-23 dry-air column-averaged mole fractions (XHFC-23) were calculated. The FTIR-retrieved XHFC-23 values at Rikubetsu and Syowa Station have negative biases of −15 % to −20 % and −25 % compared to the AGAGE datasets, respectively. These negative biases might mainly come from systematic uncertainties of HFC-23 spectroscopic parameters. The trend of the FTIR-retrieved XHFC-23 data at Rikubetsu was derived for December to February (DJF) observations, which are considered to represent the background values when an air mass reaching Rikubetsu has the least influence by transport of HFC-23 emissions from nearby countries. The DJF trend of Rikubetsu over the 1997–2009 period is 0.810 ± 0.093 ppt yr−1 (ppt: parts per trillion), which is in good agreement with the trend derived from the annual global mean datasets of the AGAGE 12-box model for the same period (0.820 ± 0.013 ppt yr−1). The DJF trend of Rikubetsu over the 2008–2019 period is 0.928 ± 0.108 ppt yr−1, which is consistent with the trend in the AGAGE in situ measurements at Trinidad Head (41.1∘ N, 124.2∘ W) for the same period (0.994 ± 0.001 ppt yr−1). The trend of the FTIR-retrieved XHFC-23 data at Syowa Station over the 2007–2016 period is 0.819 ± 0.071 ppt yr−1, which is consistent with that derived from the AGAGE in situ measurements at Cape Grim (40.7∘ S, 144.7∘ E) for the same period (0.874 ± 0.002 ppt yr−1). Although there are systematic biases in the FTIR-retrieved XHFC-23 at both sites, these results indicate that ground-based FTIR observations have the capability to monitor the long-term trend of atmospheric HFC-23. If this FTIR measurement technique were extended to other Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) ground-based FTIR sites around world, the measurements reported from these sites would complement the global AGAGE observations by filling spatial and temporal gaps and may lead to improved insights about changes in regional and global emissions of HFC-23 and its role in global warming.


1982 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. C. Gillette ◽  
J. B. Lando ◽  
J. L. Koenig

The application of a finite difference Levenberg-Marquardt nonlinear least-squares procedure for the resoluton of overlapping peaks in Fourier transform-infrared spectra is described. Starting estimates of peak parameters utilized in the refinement are obtained from a numerically approximated second derivative spectrum which has been smoothed. Quantitative information reflecting the constituent peaks and the “goodness of fit” is displayed graphically in a procedure requiring much less than 1 min to both initiate and obtain results in a form that is readily interpreted.


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