The aerosol data available through HITRAN are described in the following readme files:
Users are referred to the readme documents above for a description of the file structure and aerosol data contain in HITRAN. The aerosol data for HITRAN2024 can be downloaded here:
The archive file contains a number of files and folders, which contain both data and software for accessing these files. Users are referred to the readme documents for details on how to extract the files/folders from the tar archive.
Further aerosol data and documentation are accessible directly from the HITRAN server. The Aerosols-2024 directory contains the files above for HITRAN2024 [1], and aerosol data from previous versions of HITRAN can be found in a separate folder.
[1] I. E. Gordon, L. S. Rothman, R. J. Hargreaves, F. M. Gomez, T. Bertin, C. Hill, et al., "The HITRAN2024 molecular spectroscopic database", J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, in press (2026)