The influence of atmospheric gases spectral lines on the methane concentration retrieval from solar radiation measurements in the 1.6-1.7 mm spectral region is investigated. The modeling of atmospheric transmission function with different methane and ethylene atmospheric concentration profiles showed a necessity of taking into account the ethylene spectral absorption lines in radiative calculations in this spectral region in addition to usually accountable СН4, H2O, CO2 gases.
molecular absorption, methane column amount, atmosphere