The quality of data from the National Science Foundation's UV Monitoring Network for Polar Regions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4896, Issue , 2002, Pages 79-93

  Bernhard, Germar ^a   Booth, Charles R ^a   Ehramjian, James C ^a  

^a BIOSPHERICAL INSTRUMENTS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cosine correction; QA QC; Solar ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COSINE TRANSFORMS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

BIOLOGICAL DOSE RATES;

ULTRAVIOLET DETECTORS;

EID: 0141495014     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.466239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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