COMMISSION ON MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND SPECTROSCOPY
SUBCOMMITTEE ON NOTATIONS AND CONVENTIONS FOR MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
Number: 154/6/97
Title: Part 5. Electronic-Vibrational-Rotational
Spectroscopy
Series: Notations and Conventions in Molecular
Spectroscopy
Coordinator(s): James
K. G. Watson and Robin
S. McDowell
Remarks: Expect interactions with Commissions
I.1, I.4, V.4, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy,
and many workers in astronomy, physics, environmental atmospheric
and stratospheric chemistry, and modern chemical physics, who use
molecular spectroscopy .
Completion Date: 2001 - abandoned
Objective:
The purpose of the Subcommittee on Notations and Conventions for Molecular
Spectroscopy is to establish and recommend a set of conventions and
symbols from those that are in common use in the spectroscopic literature.
All of its projects have this objective, with the title showing the
scope of a project. The symbols, notations and conventions of this
field are very detailed and extensive; they have expanded greatly
in the past 2 decades as a result of the extraordinary detail revealed
by modern laser spectroscopy. This project will complement the project
on vibration-rotation spectroscopy by considering the many additional
features introduced by transitions between different electronic states.
The final report of the project will present a consistent set of the
symbols, notations and conventions that are in current use in the
analysis and use of very-high-resolution spectra of electronic-vibration-rotation
transitions. The subcommittee's
international membership includes the leading workers in the field,
which ensures that the project will provide a consistent basis for
the growing international application of high-resolution spectroscopy
to studies of space, the atmosphere, and chemical physics.
Progress:
This project will build on project 154/5/97,
so it awaits the completion of that project.
> Previous Series Titles, see
Project 154/5/97
Project abandoned
Last Update: 17 December 2001
