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    Adler‐Golden, Steven

    Journal of Geophysical Research, Washington, DC, 1 September 1997, Volume: 102, Issue: A9
    Journal Article

    An improved kinetic model for the Meinel bands of OH has been constructed from rate constants and Einstein A coefficients derived in recent laboratory experiments. Using a semiempirical parameterization of the state‐to‐state rate constants for OH(v) quenching by O2, the absolute OH(v) nightglow radiances are modeled to within the accuracies of the atmospheric constituent concentrations and the radiometric calibrations. Collisional quenching is found to be predominantly multiquantum at high v but single‐quantum at low v.