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Adding isotopologues

Open danielkoll opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

By default, PyRADS only implements the dominant isotopologue of each gas. However, minor isotopologues have lines and bands in parts of the spectrum where the main isotopologue doesn't absorb much.

This could potentially affect CO2 forcing at intermediate/high CO2 levels -- currently unclear how big the effect is.

It seems that, by default, HITRAN data is already weighted by a 'representative' isotope ratio (https://hitran.org/docs/definitions-and-units). So necessary changes would be to update the HITRAN line data, plus the mean molecular mass of each gas assumed in the code (e.g., Absorption_Crosssections_HITRAN2016.py assumes a molecular weight of 44 g/mol for CO2).

danielkoll avatar Jan 12 '22 13:01 danielkoll