Water-vapor isotope ratio measurements in air with a quantum-cascade laser spectrometer.
A spectrometer was used in the laboratory to study water-vapor isotope ratio measurements in air: H2 18O/H2 16O and HDO/H2 16O near 6.7 microm. The spectral region ranging from 1483 to 1487 cm(-1), which is suitable for the in situ laser sensing of major water-vapor isotopologues in the middle atmosphere from airborne or balloonborne platforms, was investigated by use of a continuous-wave distributed feedback quantum-cascade laser. The concentrations obtained were compared with the concentrations obtained with a hygrometer. The sigma(18O) values were found to be in excellent agreement with the standard value for two individual lines. The sigma(D) value was slightly higher than the standard value.
Joly
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Groupe de Spectrometrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, UFR Sciences, Reims, France. lilian.joly@univ-reims.fr
Zéninari
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Parvitte
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Courtois
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Durry
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