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Software Reference

MT_CKD_H2O. (2003). Mlawer-Tobin_Clough-Kneizyzs-Davies Water Vapor Continuum Model. Developed by E.J. Mlawer, S.A. Clough, and K.E. Cady-Pereira [Software]. Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Radiation and Climate Group. Retrieved from https://github.com/AER-RC/MT_CKD_H2O

Principal Reference for MT_CKD Continuum Model

Mlawer, E. J., V. H. Payne, J.-L. Moncet, J. S. Delamere, M. J. Alvarado and D. D. Tobin, Development and recent evaluation of the MT_CKD model of continuum absorption, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 370, 1-37, doi:10.1098:rsta.2011.0295, 2012.

MT_CKD Water Vapor Continuum Model

  • Mlawer, E. J., K.E. Cady-Pereira, J. Mascio, I.E. Gordon, The inclusion of the MT_CKD water vapor continuum model in the HITRAN molecular spectroscopic database, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 306, 108645, 2023

  • Mlawer, E. J., Turner, D. D., Paine, S. N., Palchetti, L., Bianchini, G., Payne, V. H., et al. (2019). Analysis of water vapor absorption in the far-infrared and submillimeter regions using surface radiometric measurements from extremely dry locations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 8134-8160, doi:10.1029/2018JD029508

  • Delamere, J.S., S.A. Clough, V.H. Payne, E.J. Mlawer, D.D. Turner, and R.R. Gamache, A far-infrared radiative closure study in the Arctic: Application to water vapor, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D17106, doi: 10.1029/2009JD012968, 2010.

  • Payne, V. H., E. J. Mlawer, K.E. Cady-Pereira and J-L. Moncet, Water vapor continuum absorption in the microwave, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens, 49(6), 2194-2208, doi 10.1109/TGRS.2010.209141, 2011.

Principal Reference for CKD Water Vapor Continuum Model

  • Clough, S. A., F. X. Kneizys, and R. W. Davies: Line shape and the water vapor continuum, Atmos. Res., 23, 229-241, 1989.

Other Historical References for AER's Continuum Models

  • Clough, S.A., The Water Vapor Continuum and its Role in Remote Sensing, in Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Vol. 2, 1995, OSA Technical Digest Series, (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 1995), pp 76-78.

  • Clough, S.A., R.W. Davies and R.H. Tipping (1983): The line shape for collisionally broadened molecular transitions: A quantum theory satisfying the fluctuation dissipation theorem, Spectral Line Shapes, Editor: K. Burnett, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1983; also AFGL-TR-82-0281.

  • Clough, S.A., F.X. Kneizys, R. Davis, R. Gamache and R. Tipping: Theoretical line shape for H2O vapor: Application to the continuum. Atmospheric Water Vapor, edited by A. Deepak, T.D. Wilkerson and L.H. Ruhnke, 52, Academic Press, New York,1980.

  • Davies, R. W., R.H. Tipping, and S.A. Clough (1982): Dipole autocorrelation function for molecular pressure broadening: A quantum theory which satisfies the fluctuation dissipation theorem. Phys. Rev. A, 26, 3378.

  • Han, Y., J.A. Shaw, J.H.Churnside, P.D. Brown and S. A. Clough (1997): Infrared spectral Radiance measurements in the tropical Pacific atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res.,102, 4,353- 4,356.

  • Kneizys, F.X., E.P.Shettle, L.W. Abreu, J.H. Chetwynd, Jr., G.P. Anderson, W.O. Gallery, J.E.A. Selby, S.A. Clough and R.W. Fenn (1988): USERS GUIDE TO LOWTRAN7, AFGL-TR-88-0177.

  • Kneizys, F.X., E.P.Shettle, W.O. Gallery, J.H. Chetwynd, Jr., L.W. Abreu, J.E.A. Selby, S.A. Clough and R.W. Fenn (1983): ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMITTANCE/RADIANCE: COMPUTER CODE LOWTRAN6", AFGL-TR-83-0187.

  • Mlawer, E.J., S.A. Clough, P.D. Brown, T.M. Stephens, J.C. Landry, A. Goldman and F.J. Murcray (1998): Observed Atmospheric Collision Induced Absorption in Near Infrared Oxygen Bands, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 3859-3863.

  • Tobin, D. C., F. A. Best, P. D. Brown, S. A. Clough, R. G. Dedecker, R. G. Ellingson, R. K. Garcia, H. B. Howell, R. O. Knuteson, E. J. Mlawer, H. E. Revercomb, J. F. Short, P. F. van Delst, and V. P. Walden, Downwelling Spectral Radiance Observations at the SHEBA Ice Station: Water Vapor Continuum Measurements from 17-26 micrometer, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 2081-2092, 1999.

  • Turner, D. D., and Coauthors, The QME AERI LBLRTM: A closure experiment for downwelling high spectral resolution infrared radiance. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 2657–2675, 2004.