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 per centimeter very well. The speed of light is 3e10 cm/s, so multipliy 600 to 800 cycles per centimeter to get 18 to 24 THz.

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