ELDONET - A decade of monitoring solar radiation on five continents

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1348-1357

  Häder, Donat Peter ^a   Lebert, Michael ^a   Schuster, Martin ^a   Ciampo, Lineu Del ^b   Helbling, E Walter ^c   McKenzie, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOINVILLE REGION   (Brazil)

^c Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

ARTICLE; ASIA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; NEW ZEALAND; SEASON; SOLAR ENERGY; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ASIA; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; NEW ZEALAND; OZONE; SEASONS; SOFTWARE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 36249019131     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2007.00168.x     Document Type: Article

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