HITRAN is an acronym for high-resolution transmission molecular absorption database. HITRAN is a compilation of spectroscopic parameters that a variety of computer codes use to predict and simulate the transmission and emission of light in the atmosphere.
We are pleased to announce there are now over 33000 registered users of www.hitran.org
August 2024
We are excited to announce a special issue celebrating over half a century of success of the HITRAN molecular spectroscopy database and the remarkable contributions of its long-term director, Dr. Laurence S. Rothman. This issue will feature the article describing the HITRAN2024 edition of the database, as well as other contributions describing cutting-edge research. We invite contributions that continue to push the boundaries of molecular spectroscopic research of atmospheric and astrophysical interest and celebrate HITRAN's legacy. The specific topics include:
1. New laboratory or theoretical spectroscopic data for the species of atmospheric or astrophysical importance.
2. Compilation of molecular spectroscopic databases.
3. Validation of spectroscopic parameters in atmospheric and astrophysical applications.
4. Database archiving, tools, and methodology.
All papers will have to meet the publication standards of JQSRT, and will be subject to the normal submission and refereeing process. The online submission to the special issue is already active and will close on February 1, 2025. To submit your manuscript, please go to the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer (at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-quantitative-spectroscopy-and-radiative-transfer ) and follow the procedures for manuscript submission. Please select VSI: HITRAN 2024 when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.
August 2024
Thanks to multiple requests, the water vapor continuum is making its debut in HITRAN. The MT_CKD (Mlawer-Tobin-Clough-Kneizys-Davies) Water Vapor Continuum Model provides absorption coefficients due to water vapor that should be added to the contributions calculated from the line-by-line water vapor transitions to obtain the total absorption due to water vapor. Description of the parametrization and other details can be found in Mlawer et al., JQSRT (2023)
December 2022
Dear Colleagues,
The data on this website corresponds to the HITRAN2020 edition of the database. The HITRAN2020paper describing the new edition is available in Open Access
Gordon, I.E., Rothman, L.S., Hargreaves, R.J., Hashemi, R., Karlovets, E.V., Skinner, F.M., Conway, E.K., Hill, C., Kochanov, R.V., Tan, Y., Wcisło, P., Finenko, A.A., Nelson, K., Bernath, P.F., Birk, M., Boudon, V., Campargue, A., Chance, K.V., Coustenis, A., Drouin, B.J., Flaud, J. –M., Gamache, R.R., Hodges, J.T., Jacquemart, D., Mlawer, E.J., Nikitin, A.V., Perevalov, V.I., Rotger, M., Tennyson, J., Toon, G.C., Tran, H., Tyuterev, V.G., Adkins, E.M., Baker, A., Barbe, A., Canè, E., Császár, A.G., Dudaryonok, A., Egorov, O., Fleisher, A.J., Fleurbaey, H., Foltynowicz, A., Furtenbacher, T., Harrison, J.J., Hartmann, J. –M., Horneman, V. –M., Huang, X., Karman, T., Karns, J., Kassi, S., Kleiner, I., Kofman, V., Kwabia–Tchana, F., Lavrentieva, N.N., Lee, T.J., Long, D.A., Lukashevskaya, A.A., Lyulin, O.M., Makhnev, V.Y., Matt, W., Massie, S.T., Melosso, M., Mikhailenko, S.N., Mondelain, D., Müller, H.S.P., Naumenko, O.V., Perrin, A., Polyansky, O.L., Raddaoui, E., Raston, P.L., Reed, Z.D., Rey, M., Richard, C., Tóbiás, R., Sadiek, I., Schwenke, D.W., Starikova, E., Sung, K., Tamassia, F., Tashkun, S.A., Auwera, J. Vander, Vasilenko, I.A., Vigasin, A.A., Villanueva, G.L., Vispoel, B., Wagner, G., Yachmenev, A., Yurchenko, S.N. The HITRAN2020 molecular spectroscopic database. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf. 277, 107949 (2022).
doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2021.107949.]
==> Note that we are constantly making ongoing improvements and additions to many molecular bands. Updates, improvements, and corrections to the edition are posted in the "Database Updates" panel located on the home page of the HITRAN website. When citing the database, it is recommended to indicate if an updated version of the HITRAN2020 edition was used.
Please e-mail us (info@hitran.org) a summary of any serious problems you encounter (or successes or suggestions).
October 2021
The HITRAN support e-mail has been established and our team is ready for questions.
July 2015
The line list for phosphine (PH3) has been extended up to 4763 cm-1 to now include the tetradecad region. Line parameters from the work of Nikitin et al. (2023) have been used.
In addition, H2-broadening and He-broadening has been extended to the tetradecad region using the functions described in Tan et al. (2022).
August 2024
HITRAN2020 Intensities and Einstein-A coefficients of the bands with 4≤Δv<8 for all isotopologues of hydrochloric acid (HCl) were multiplied by a factor of 1.3 based on the measurements reported by Vasilchenko et al. (2023).
August 2024
The SO line list has been updated to include the infrared vibrational transitions of the ground electronic state from Bernath et al. (2022). The PGOPHER model, provided as supplementary material to the article, was used to include additional transitions for some branches that were incomplete in the supplementary line list of Bernath et al. (2022).
January 2024
MT_CKD water vapor continuum model was updated to version 4.2 with modifications to self, foreign, and self temperature dependence in IR window (590-1400 cm-1).
Recall that in December 2022 the MT_CKD water vapor continuum model was updated to version 4.1.1, where the foreign continuum changed in far-IR.
As a reminder, the details about MT_CKD water vapor continuum model in HITRAN can be found at:
December 2023
The air- and self-broadening parameters for C2H6 have been corrected for the torsional bands in the FIR. It was noticed that the broadening functions from Devi et al. (2010) were not applied correctly in the database for these bands. We thank Elizabeth Guest (UCL) for identifying this issue.
October 2023
The line list for the CH3CN molecule has been substantially extended and updated. Pure rotational, ν8, 2ν8, and corresponding hot bands were added to the database for the first time. The ν4 band has been substantially updated.
The new line list is calculated based on Müller et al. (2021) and references therein.
January 2023
The temperature dependences of the half-widths of CO2 lines broadened by helium (He) have been updated using data from Deng et al. (2009) and Brimacombe & Reid (1983) .
The self-broadening parameters of the H2 lines under the traditional .par format (Voigt profile parametrization) were updated using the corresponding parameters from the Hartmann-Tran profile parametrization reported in Wcisło et al. (2016). Specifically, γself, nself and δself were updated using values corresponding to γHT_0_self(296), nHT_0_self(296), δHT_0_self(296). Typically, it is not recommended to use Lorentzian widths determined with different profiles, however, it is still better than using the coarse approximation employed previously. The same parameters were also cloned for γH2, nH2 and δH2.
August 2022
The line list for water vapor above 4340 cm-1 has been revised based on the evaluations carried out by Eli Mlawer and Mike Iacono (AER) using TCCON spectra from the Lamont site. The changes could be summarized into these categories:
1. Line shift parameters in HITRAN2020 that originated from Ref. ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107030) were found to have errors for certain bands, resulting for instance in a large amount of positive values. While these models are being improved, the issue was fixed in the following way: The shifts that affected the quality of the residuals have been reverted back to the HITRAN2016 values or replaced with those from the AER list, which contains manual modifications of the HITRAN2016 parameters to better match the TCCON spectra.
2. The air-broadened half-widths that affected the quality of the residuals have been reverted back to the HITRAN2016 values or replaced with those from the AER list "aer3.8.1" ( https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5120012), which contains manual modifications of the HITRAN2016 parameters to better match the TCCON spectra.
3. The intensities in the 4ν2+ν3 band were scaled down by 22%, while individual intensities (of ab initio origin) in different bands had to be scaled to match the TCCON spectra.
4. As pointed out by Alain Campargue (Grenoble), a large percentage of the lines in HITRAN2020 that were referencing W2020 MARVEL line list for the line positions were deviating slightly from the line positions in the original W2020 work. This has now been fixed.
It should be noted that the aforementioned changes affect primarily the principal isotopologue. Also, the line position changes proposed in ( https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2022.2051762) have not been implemented yet, but they are unlikely to impact the strong lines.
May 2022
It was found that in the process of combining different line lists of ozone for HITRAN2020, the lines of the principal isotopologues of ozone in the 850-980 cm-1 spectral region were accidentally omitted. These lines are now restored. Although most of these transitions are relatively weak, they are still important in remote sensing applications. We thank Norbert Glatthor (KIT) for pointing out this issue.
November 2021
The data on this website corresponds to the HITRAN2020 edition. The updates to this edition will be announced in this section as they appear
October 2021