“…Moreover, a full uncertainty budget is desirable to assess the significance of a potential bias correction. Based on requirements in atmospheric research and air quality control [24] an uncertainty level of better than 1% should be realized, knowing that intensities are not 115 the only factors limiting the accuracy of atmospheric remote sensing in the IR which requires other spectroscopic parameters such as pressure broadening and shifting coefficients to be well specified too [15,26,27]. Corresponding investigations have been carried out by 120 several research groups and some of these very recent results are published as part of the current special issue.…”