The project aims at developing a distributed information-computational system for molecular spectroscopy. The basic information system will be located in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, and Tomsk. The system is supposed to be used through web-interface and a programmable agent to receive news on molecular spectroscopy and information about the spectroscopic data sources.

The ICS information resources are composed of three types of data: molecular structural characteristics, spectral line parameters, and spectral functions. For the data sources we use the well-known HITRAN and GEISA data sets as well as the original experimental results and numerical calculations of project participants. Computational services of our information system are supposed to solve forward and inverse problems of spectroscopy, atmospheric optics, remote sensing of the atmosphere, short-wave radiation transfer in the Earth’s atmosphere, spectral gas analysis, astrophysics, etc. Calculation results are given out in the form of documents with links to the metadata characterising all the three data types, metadata sources and methods of its calculation used in computations.

Participants of the project:

Institute of Applied Physics RAS
Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS
S.-Petersburg University