Dear Pengwang, ARTS has been used before for absorption calculations in the visible: Gasteiger, J., C. Emde, B. Mayer, R. Buras, S. A. Buehler, and O. Lemke (2014), Representative wavelengths absorption parameterization applied to satellite channels and spectral bands, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 148, 99–115, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2014.06.024.
I think I remember that there was some issue with a missing continuum (O2?) for these frequencies. Claudia/Jana, could you comment, please? But apart from this it should be ok. But be aware that it is much less tested and validated than for IR frequencies. I would like to extend ARTS to the UV/Vis range at some point. For this we need to include a collimated beam (solar) source in the radiative transfer part. Best wishes, Stefan > On 23 Sep 2016, at 15:15, Pengwang Zhai <pwz...@umbc.edu> wrote: > > Dear ARTS fans, > > I intent to use ARTS to obtain gas absorption coefficients for major gases, > base on HITRAN 2012 database. In the main page of ARTS, one of the current > limitation is: > > (Current) Limitations > • not suitable for shortwave calculations (near IR-UV) > • no absorption models for UV/VIS > > I wonder where the limitation is from. To calculate gas absorption, we only > need temperature, pressure fields, and aren’t the routines the same as the IR > and microwave? > > Could the developers confirm this? If the limitation is from Radiative > transfer side, I am safe. All I wanted is the gas absorption coefficients as > a function of pressure and temperature. > > Thanks very much to the ARTS community. > > Yours, > > Pengwang > > _______________________________________________ > arts_users.mi mailing list > arts_users.mi@lists.uni-hamburg.de > https://mailman.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/mailman/listinfo/arts_users.mi _______________________________________________ arts_users.mi mailing list arts_users.mi@lists.uni-hamburg.de https://mailman.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/mailman/listinfo/arts_users.mi
