Comparison of Models Used for UV Index Calculations

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 657-662

  Koepke, Peter ^a,o   Bais, Alkiviadis ^b   Balis, Dimitrios ^b   Buchwitz, Michael ^c   De Backer, Hugo ^d   De Cabo, Xavier ^e   Eckert, Pierre ^f   Eriksen, Paul ^g   Gillotay, Didier ^h   Heikkilä, Anu ⁱ   Koskela, Tapani ⁱ   Lapeta, Bozena ^j   Litynska, Zenobia ^j   Lorente, Jeronimo ^e   Mayer, Bernhard ^k   Renaud, Anne ^l   Ruggaber, Ansgar ^a   Schauberger, Günther ^m   Seckmeyer, Gunther ^k   Seifert, Peter ^a   Schmalwieser, Alois ^m   Schwander, Harry ^a   Vanicek, Karel ⁿ   Weber, Mark ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f Centre Meteorologique   (Switzerland)

^g DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^h BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

ⁱ FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^j INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^k KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^l ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^m UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

ⁿ SOO CHMI   (Czech Republic)

^o Meteorologisches Inst der Univ   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WEATHER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WEATHER;

EID: 0032088292     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1998.tb09109.x     Document Type: Article

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