The HITRAN2024 molecular spectroscopic database

Gordon, I.E. and Rothman, L.S. and Hargreaves, R.J. and Gomez, F.M. and Bertin, T. and Hill, C. and Kochanov, R.V. and Tan, Y. and Wcisło, P. and Makhnev, V.Yu. and Bernath, P.F. and Birk, Manfred and Boudon, V. and Campargue, A. and Coustenis, A. and Drouin, B.J. and Gamache, R.R. and Hodges, J.T. and Jacquemart, D. and Mlawer, E.J. and Nikitin, A.V. and Perevalov, V.I. and Rotger, M. and Robert, S. and Tennyson, J. and Toon, G.C. and Tran, H. and Tyuterev, V.G. and Adkins, E.M. and Barbe, A. and Bailey, D.M. and Bielska, K. and Bizzocchi, L. and Blake, T.A. and Bowesman, C.A. and Cacciani, P. and Čermák, P. and Császár, A.G. and Denis, L. and Egbert, S.C. and Egorov, O. and Ermilov, A.Yu. and Fleisher, A.J. and Fleurbaey, H. and Foltynowicz, A. and Furtenbacher, T. and Germann, M. and Guest, E.R. and Harrison, J.J. and Hartmann, J.-M. and Hjältén, A. and Hu, S.-M. and Huang, X. and Johnson, T.J. and Jóźwiak, H. and Kassi, S. and Khan, M.V. and Kwabia-Tchana, F. and Lee, T.J. and Lisak, D. and Liu, A.-W. and Lyulin, O.M. and Malarich, N.A. and Manceron, L. and Marinina, A.A. and Massie, S.T. and Mascio, J. and Medvedev, E.S. and Meshkov, V.V. and Mellau, G.Ch. and Melosso, M. and Mikhailenko, S.N. and Mondelain, D. and Müller, H.S.P. and O’Donnell, M. and Owens, A. and Perrin, A. and Polyansky, O.L. and Raston, P.L. and Reed, Z.D. and Rey, M. and Richard, C. and Rieker, G.B. and Röske, Christian and Sharpe, S.W. and Starikova, E. and Stolarczyk, N. and Stolyarov, A.V. and Sung, K. and Tamassia, F. and Terragni, J. and Ushakov, V.G. and Vasilchenko, S. and Vispoel, B. and Vodopyanov, K.L. and Wagner, Georg and Wójtewicz, S. and Yurchenko, S.N. and Zobov, N.F. (2026) The HITRAN2024 molecular spectroscopic database. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2026.109807. ISSN 0022-4073.

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Official URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022407326000014

Abstract

The HITRAN database is a curated compilation of validated molecular spectroscopic parameters, established in the early 1970s. It is used by various computer codes to predict and simulate the transmission and emission of light in gaseous media (with an emphasis on terrestrial and planetary atmospheres). The HITRAN compilation is composed of six major components. These components include the line-by-line spectroscopic parameters required for high-resolution radiative-transfer codes, experimentally derived absorption cross-sections (for molecules where it is not yet feasible for representation in a line-by-line form), collision-induced absorption data, aerosol indices of refraction, and general tables (including partition sums) that apply globally to the data. Responding to community requests, HITRAN2024 also incorporates-for the first time-a water-vapor continuum model.

This paper describes the details of the choices of data and their compilation for the 2024 quadrennial edition of HITRAN. The HITRAN2024 edition takes advantage of recent experimental and theoretical data that were meticulously validated, in particular, against laboratory and atmospheric spectra. The new edition replaces the previous HITRAN edition of 2020 (including various updates during the intervening years).

The extent of the updates of the line-by-line section in the HITRAN2024 edition ranges from updating a few lines of specific molecules/isotopologues to complete replacements of the lists, and also the introduction of additional isotopologues and six new (to HITRAN) molecules: H3+, CH3, S2, COFCl, HONO, ClNO2. Many new vibrational bands were added, extending the spectral coverage and completeness of the line lists. In addition, the accuracy of the parameters for major atmospheric absorbers has been increased substantially, often bringing the uncertainties down to unprecedented levels below 0.1%.

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Title:

The HITRAN2024 molecular spectroscopic database

Authors:

Authors	Institution or Email of Authors	Author's ORCID iD	ORCID Put Code
Gordon, I.E.	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Rothman, L.S.	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Hargreaves, R.J.	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Gomez, F.M.	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Bertin, T.	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Hill, C.	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Kochanov, R.V.	Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Tan, Y.	Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge MA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Wcisło, P.	Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Makhnev, V.Yu.	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Bernath, P.F.	Old Dominion University, Department of Chemistry, Norfolk VA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Birk, Manfred	Manfred.Birk (at) dlr.de	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Boudon, V.	Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, ICB UMR 6303, Dijon, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Campargue, A.	University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, Grenoble, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Coustenis, A.	LESIA, Paris Observatory, CNRS, PSL Univ., Sorbonne Univ., Paris, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Drouin, B.J.	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Gamache, R.R.	University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Environmental, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Lowell MA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Hodges, J.T.	National Institute of Standards and Technology, Material Measurement Laboratory, Gaithersburg MD, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Jacquemart, D.	Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MONARIS, 75005 Paris, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Mlawer, E.J.	Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington MA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Nikitin, A.V.	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Perevalov, V.I.	V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Rotger, M.	Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, UMR CNRS 7331, Reims, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Robert, S.	Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), Brussels, Belgium	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Tennyson, J.	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Toon, G.C.	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Tran, H.	Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Tyuterev, V.G.	V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Adkins, E.M.	National Institute of Standards and Technology, Material Measurement Laboratory, Gaithersburg MD, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Barbe, A.	Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, UMR CNRS 7331, Reims, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Bailey, D.M.	National Institute of Standards and Technology, Material Measurement Laboratory, Gaithersburg MD, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Bielska, K.	Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Bizzocchi, L.	Dipartimento di Chimica “Giacomo Ciamician”, Università di Bologna, Italy	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Blake, T.A.	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Bowesman, C.A.	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Cacciani, P.	Univ. Lille, CNRS, PhLAM, Lille, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Čermák, P.	Department of Experimental Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Császár, A.G.	ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Denis, L.	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Egbert, S.C.	Precision Laser Diagnostics Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Egorov, O.	Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Ermilov, A.Yu.	Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Fleisher, A.J.	National Institute of Standards and Technology, Material Measurement Laboratory, Gaithersburg MD, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Fleurbaey, H.	University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, Grenoble, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Foltynowicz, A.	Department of Physics, Umeå University, Sweden	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Furtenbacher, T.	ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Germann, M.	Department of Physics, Umeå University, Sweden	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Guest, E.R.	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Harrison, J.J.	National Centre for Earth Observation, Space Park Leicester, Leicester, UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Hartmann, J.-M.	Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, CNRS, École polytechnique, Palaiseau, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Hjältén, A.	Department of Physics, Umeå University, Sweden	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Hu, S.-M.	Hefei National Research Center for Physical Science at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Huang, X.	SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Johnson, T.J.	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Jóźwiak, H.	Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Kassi, S.	University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, Grenoble, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Khan, M.V.	Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MONARIS, Paris, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Kwabia-Tchana, F.	Université Paris Cité and Univ. Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, LISA, Paris, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Lee, T.J.	Astrophysics Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Lisak, D.	Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Liu, A.-W.	Hefei National Research Center for Physical Science at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Lyulin, O.M.	V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Malarich, N.A.	Precision Laser Diagnostics Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Manceron, L.	Synchrotron SOLEIL, Beamline AILES, Saint-Aubin, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Marinina, A.A.	V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Massie, S.T.	University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder CO, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Mascio, J.	Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington MA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Medvedev, E.S.	Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Meshkov, V.V.	Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Mellau, G.Ch.	Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Melosso, M.	Dipartimento di Chimica “Giacomo Ciamician”, Università di Bologna, Italy	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Mikhailenko, S.N.	V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Mondelain, D.	University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, Grenoble, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Müller, H.S.P.	Astrophysik/I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Germany	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
O’Donnell, M.	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Owens, A.	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Perrin, A.	Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, CNRS, Paris, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Polyansky, O.L.	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Raston, P.L.	Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu HI, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Reed, Z.D.	National Institute of Standards and Technology, Material Measurement Laboratory, Gaithersburg MD, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Rey, M.	Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, Reims, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Richard, C.	Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, ICB UMR 6303, Dijon, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Rieker, G.B.	Precision Laser Diagnostics Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Röske, Christian	Christian.Roeske (at) dlr.de	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Sharpe, S.W.	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Starikova, E.	V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Stolarczyk, N.	Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Stolyarov, A.V.	Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Sung, K.	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Tamassia, F.	Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale “Toso Montanari”, Università di Bologna, Italy	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Terragni, J.	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Ushakov, V.G.	Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Vasilchenko, S.	V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Vispoel, B.	Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), Brussels, Belgium	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Vodopyanov, K.L.	CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando FL, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Wagner, Georg	Georg.Wagner (at) dlr.de	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Wójtewicz, S.	Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Yurchenko, S.N.	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Zobov, N.F.	Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED

Date:

15 January 2026

Journal or Publication Title:

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Refereed publication:

Yes

Open Access:

Yes

Gold Open Access:

In SCOPUS:

Yes

In ISI Web of Science:

Yes

DOI:

10.1016/j.jqsrt.2026.109807

Publisher:

Elsevier

ISSN:

0022-4073

Status:

Published

Keywords:

Spectroscopic database, Molecular spectroscopy, Spectroscopic line parameters, Absorption cross-sections, Collision-induced absorption, Aerosols, Molecular opacities

HGF - Research field:

Aeronautics, Space and Transport

HGF - Program:

Space

HGF - Program Themes:

Earth Observation

DLR - Research area:

Raumfahrt

DLR - Program:

R EO - Earth Observation

DLR - Research theme (Project):

R - Spectroscopic methods of the atmosphere

Location:

Oberpfaffenhofen

Institutes and Institutions:

Remote Sensing Technology Institute > Atmospheric Processors

Deposited By:

Röske, Christian

Deposited On:

21 Jan 2026 13:13

Last Modified:

21 Jan 2026 13:13

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