Traveling reference spectroradiometer for routine quality assurance of spectral solar ultraviolet irradiance measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 5321-5331

  Gröbner, Julian ^a,b   Schreder, Josef ^c   Kazadzis, Stelios ^d   Bais, Alkiviadis F ^d   Blumthaler, Mario ^e   Görts, Peter ^f   Tax, Rick ^f   Koskela, Tapani ^g   Seckmeyer, Gunther ^h   Webb, Ann R ⁱ   Rembges, Diana ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^c Calibration Measurement Software Solutions   (Austria)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^g FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^h LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRADIATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOMETERS; SOLAR RADIATION;

SOLAR IRRADIANCE MEASUREMENT; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SPECTRORADIOMETER; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE;

ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 25444506209     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005321     Document Type: Article

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