Visible and near-infrared H216O line intensity corrections for HITRAN-96

Systematic differences are apparent between the absolute intensities of water vapor lines in the 8036-22,657 cm(-1) region listed in the HITRAN-96 database and those reported in the five original articles which constitute the sources for the database. This note suggests corrections which should be made to the HITRAN line intensities of various water bands in this region to achieve compliance with the measured intensities. A correction which increases the intensities by 8-14% should be applied in the 9500-12,861 cm(-1) region. The correction decreases the line intensities in the 8036-9482 and 13,200-22,657 cm(-1) intervals. The correction factor is exp[ - E"(2hc/k)(1/T - 1/T')] in these regions, where T = 296 K and T' is the measurement temperature. This correction becomes significant at higher values of E", it decreases the line intensities in HITRAN by about 19% at E" = 1400 cm(-1). (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.