Is there a good link (s) to publicly available literature (no charge preferrable) that shows the agreement between calculated and observed atmospheric
IR emission spectra looking up or down or both, or at least some observed spectra that can then be modeled at the Archer site?
Look at
the IR emission spectrum of the atmosphere from space.
Not exact matches
Our
IR observations show the comparatively broad
emission lines, the rapid development of the
spectrum to higher ionization, the early appearance of coronal lines, and the absence of dust
emission, all features that indicate the hybrid nature of the nova.
The reason is that after clicking on links from that page, I came across your «source», except that it didn't show OLR over the entire thermal
IR spectrum of Earth's
emissions, but only in a window region.
Net UP
IR in any wavelength interval from the Earth's surface in radiative and convective equilibrium with the atmosphere is the vector sum of UP and DOWN fluxes in the opposing
emission spectra.
Emissivities were evaluated experimentally based on direct measurement of total
emission for a number of gases including CO2 and water vapour; these gases absorbed in certain regions of the
IR spectrum and this was the data which was used.
You won't detect any
IR bandwidths that don't show up in the absorption /
emission spectrum using an
IR spectrometer.
A completely wrong understanding of the QM related to vibrational
spectra; electronic
spectra are in the UV, the
IR involved in CO2 absorption /
emission is due to vibrational / rotational motion of the atoms not the electrons.
Just look at the
emission spectra of N2 and O2 and compare it with the
IR spectrum that Ira gives.