Narrowband filter radiometer for ground-based measurements of global ultraviolet solar irradiance and total ozone

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4383-4395

  Petkov, Boyan ^a,g   Vitale, Vito ^a   Tomasi, Claudio ^a   Bonafé, Ubaldo ^a   Scaglione, Salvatore ^b   Flori, Daniele ^b   Santaguida, Rlccardo ^c   Gausa, Michael ^d   Hansen, Georg ^e   Colombo, Tiziano ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

^c CAMM Mt Cimone   (Italy)

^d Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmosphere Research   (Norway)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f Italian Air Force   (Italy)

^g SOLAR TERRESTRIAL INFLUENCES LABORATORY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; DIGITAL FILTERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OZONE; SOLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

OZONE VALUES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR SPECTRUM; WAVELENGTHS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 33749562580     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004383     Document Type: Article

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