Surface erythemally-weighted UVB flux in Taiwan

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 879-894

  Liu, Chung Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Climatology; Forecast; Ultra violet B flux; UV index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034554311     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2000.11.4.879(A)     Document Type: Article

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