Multi-waveband solar irradiance on tree-shaded vertical and horizontal surfaces: Cloud-free and partly cloudy skies

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 24-31

  Grant, Richard H ^a   Heisler, Gordon M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANOPY; CLOUD; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SHADE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; TREE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PHOTOBIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT; TREES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WEATHER;

RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0035241586     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2001)073<0024:MWSIOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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