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M. A. H. SMITH, Atmospheric Sciences, NASA Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 401A, Hampton, VA 23681-2199.

Prior to 1997, most reported measurements of ozone line broadening and shift parameters involved the stronger transitions with 0 \le K_a'' \le 4. The broadening coefficients for this narrow range of K_a'' could be empirically modeled within the uncertainty of the measurements by polynomials in J''. This allowed the prediction of broadening coefficients for transitions that had not been measured in the laboratory or calculated with detailed molecular interaction models. However, more extensive measurements involving higher K_a'' transitions in the ₁ and ₂ bands show that polynomials in J'' do not adequately reproduce the measured broadening coefficients for the entire range of observed K_a''. This paper reports a set of polynomials in J'' and K_a'', each valid for a specific range of K_a'' values, that reproduce most published measured air- and self-broadening coefficients of O₃ within their experimental uncertainties. Dependence of air-induced line shift coefficients on the vibrational and rotational quantum numbers will also be examined.