Effective frequency technique for finite spectral bandwidth effects

摘要

A technique that uses a single effective frequency to represent the effects of finite spectral bandwidth for active and passive measurements centered on an absorption line, a trough region, or a slowly varying spectral feature is described. For Gaussian and rectangular instrumental line shapes, the effective frequency is shown to have a simple form that depends only on the instrumental line shape and bandwidth and not on the absorption line profile. The technique is applicable to a large class of active and passive measurements and simulations in both the laboratory and the atmosphere. Simulations show that the technique yields accuracies better than 0.1% for bandwidths less than 0.2 times the atmospheric linewidth for a rectangular line shape or better than 0.2% for a Gaussian.