Comparison of data for ozone amounts and ultraviolet doses obtained from simultaneous measurements with various standard ultraviolet instruments

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Dahlback, Arne ^a   Eide, Hans A ^b   Høiskar, Britt Ann K ^c   Olsen, Robert O ^d   Schmidlin, Francis J ^d   Tsay, Si Chee ^d   Stamnes, Knut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brewer; Clouds; Dobson; Filter instruments; Ozone measurements; Total ozone mapping spectrometer; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; DOSIMETRY; OPTICAL FILTERS; OZONE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

DOBSON DIRECT SUN MEASUREMENTS; FILTER INSTRUMENTS; OZONE MEASUREMENTS; STANDARD ULTRAVIOLET INSTRUMENTS; TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER; ULTRAVIOLET DOSES;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 22944481134     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1885473     Document Type: Article

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