Subject: volume emission rates

From: John Wise <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 16:08:07 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Ben (and Ray)

   I have a couple of formulae for computing the
volume emission rates for 15 micron CO2 and for
the 5.3 micron NO.  

  N (15 mic) =  (5.94E-26) Sqrt[Tk] exp[-960/Tk] [O] [CO2]
                -----------------------------------------
                     (4 Pi) (1.28 + 3.5E-13 Sqrt[Tk] [O])

  N (5.3 mic) = (2.63E-22) exp[-2715/Tk] [O] [NO]
                ---------------------------------
                  (4 Pi) (10.78 + 6.5E-11 [O]) 

   The 15 micron term is only the O-CO2 collisional component
but it accounts for at least 80% of the radiance above 110 km

   If you give me contour plots of these two emissions
I will try to do something similar with the data and we can 
compare the two.

John