The empirical transmission functions for molecular absorption in the widely used computer code called Lowtran are analyzed from a computerized numerical approach. Continuous functions are first adapted to the empirical functions, and then the absorber and spectral parameters are determined simultaneously for transmittance data in the major absorption bands of H2O, O3, and the uniformly mixed gases. The analysis indicates that the transmission function parameters for Lowtran may be easily, and accurately, redetermined using numerical methods. This opens the possibility for code extensions to other absorbers, frequencies, spectral resolutions, absorber concentrations, as well as to recent transmittance measurements on the major absorbers.
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Absorber Parameters Adopted (i.e., Temperature Exponent under Parenthesis) and Determined (i.e., Pressure Exponent) in the Original Development of the Lowtran Molecular Transmission Functions
The temperature exponent outside the parenthesis is the value introduced later in Lowtran in order to account for temperature dependence previously neglected.
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Absorber Parameters n, m, a0, and a1, and Spectral Constant C′ Determined Using the Proposed Method and Eqs. (10) and (15) for the Table Principal Absorbers in Their Major Adoption Bands
Absorber Parameters Adopted (i.e., Temperature Exponent under Parenthesis) and Determined (i.e., Pressure Exponent) in the Original Development of the Lowtran Molecular Transmission Functions
The temperature exponent outside the parenthesis is the value introduced later in Lowtran in order to account for temperature dependence previously neglected.
Table II
Absorber Parameters n, m, a0, and a1, and Spectral Constant C′ Determined Using the Proposed Method and Eqs. (10) and (15) for the Table Principal Absorbers in Their Major Adoption Bands