A team around Engin Keles (AIP) compared previously observed high resolution Na I and K I absorption in the atmosphere of HD189733b with synthetic transmission spectra modeled for a variety of temperature and abundance values. The comparison showed that the observed Na I-D-line widths are much larger than the modeled ones. The Na I-D-lines had to be broadened by velocities in the order of 10 km/s to match the observations if only rotational broadening is taken into account. The K I line profile on the other hand showed only a few km/s broadening comparable with the synthetic line profiles. This hints that either the atmosphere of HD 189733b lacks a significant amount of K I or the alkali lines probe different atmospheric regions with different temperature, which could explain the differences in the resolved absorption lines.