Evidence for increasing ultraviolet irradiance at Point Barrow, Alaska

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 903-906

  Gurney, Kevin Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; OZONE LAYER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE MEASUREMENT; ABSORPTION CROSS-SECTION; ANNUAL AVERAGE; COLUMN OZONE; NANOMETER WAVELENGTH; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SPECTRAL CHARACTERS; SPECTRAL REGION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; OZONE;

OZONE; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE;

ALASKA; POINT BARROW; USA;

EID: 0032520536     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00405     Document Type: Article

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