From Atmospheric Gas Spectroscopy to Climatological Problems

Abstract

Readers are offered a brief review of sample results obtained from spectroscopic investigations begun in Laboratory of Spectroscopy of V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physical-Technical Institute at Tomsk State University as early as the 1930s. Specifically, we present findings of theoretical studies of relevance to a description of the light absorption in atmospheric windows and hence to solutions of global climate problems associated with the processes involving frequencies lying far from line centers. In the course of years, a large amount of spectroscopic data has been accumulated, which led to rapid development of information-computational systems to be discussed in the present work. Not only are the considered systems capable of making computations according to preset algorithms, but they can also provide answers relating to the completeness and comparison of the data collected in the system, taking into account the structure of the subject domain in question. A prototype of a computational-information infrastructure (virtual research environment) supporting climate studies is proposed.