Increasing trend of biologically active solar ultraviolet-B irradiance in mid-latitude Japan in the 1990s

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3062-3069

  Sasaki, Masako ^a   Takeshita, Shu ^b   Oyanagi, Takehiko ^a   Miyake, Yukiharu ^c   Sakata, Toshibumi ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c EKO Instruments Company Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calibration; Effective ozone amount; Long term trend; Moving average; Regression analysis; Total ozone amount; Total solar irradianc; UV B irradiance; UV B radiometer

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; OZONE; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE;

ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 0036986732     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1516823     Document Type: Article

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