Abstract

An accurate modular computer code has been developed at the Geophysics Laboratory for calculating the non-LTE vibrational temperature of important emitters in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. This code was first developed and applied to CO₂ ν₂ emission (P.P. Wintersteiner, this meeting). We will describe the application to CO(v=1) which although simpler since it is clearly a two-level problem, is more demanding of an accurate treatment of radiative transfer for a number of reasons.

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