Stefan,
Neither I had considered this definition of VMR. But would it not make
sense to follow it? Then a statement that the atmosphere contains 20.95%
oxygen makes more sense. You yourself pointed at that it would make
sense to scale N2 and O2 for low humid altitudes, where the amount of
Dear all,
Eli Mlawer brought up an interesting point in some other context:
> we recently had a LBLRTM user get confused on our vmr, which is amount_of_gas
> / amount_of_dry_air. They weren’t sure that dry air was the denominator
> instead of total air. I’m too lazy to look at the link above
