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THE HOT SUMMER OF HITRAN2008.

I. E. GORDON, L. S. ROTHMAN, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Cambridge MA 02138-1516, USA.

The HITRAN2008 database is expected to be officially released at the end of this summer. The '' beta -version'' of the new compilation will be assembled before the HITRAN meeting which immediately follows Ohio symposium. At the HITRAN meeting, the results of the quality assessments of the '' beta -version'', as well as suggested ''last-minute'' additions, will be discussed.

The new data will be comprised of the line lists that are already available on the web site (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/hitran/updates.html) and some of the forthcoming updates. The line-by-line lists for almost all of the 39 HITRAN molecules will be updated in comparison with the previous compilation (HITRAN2004). The caliber of the updates ranges from corrections to the representations of quantum assignments to complete replacements of the lists. In addition, 2 new molecules, BrO and CH₃Br, will be included. Some of the most important updates, such as for water vapor, CO₂, O₃, the oxygen A-band, etc, will be presented.