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Here's the CO₂ absorption spectrum from NIST:
( http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C124389&Type=IR-SPEC&Index=1#IR-SPEC )

CO₂ Spectrum

From Global Warming, Understanding The Forecast by David Archer, Blackwell 2007, without permission. Buy the book for a lucid explanation of the science; perhaps the author and publisher might forgive me for posting the excerpt below.

I don't understand cycles/cm very well. The speed of light is 3e10 cm/s, so multipliy 600 to 800 cycles/cm to get 18 to 24 THz.

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Here's the CO₂ absorption spectrum from NIST: ( http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C124389&Type=IR-SPEC&Index=1#IR-SPEC )

CO2Spectrum (last edited 2016-05-31 23:33:05 by KeithLofstrom)