Validation of daily erythemal doses from Ozone Monitoring Instrument with ground-based UV measurement data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Tanskanen, Aapo ^a   Lindfors, Anders ^a   Määttä, Anu ^a   Krotkov, Nickolay ^b   Herman, Jay ^c   Kaurola, Jussi ^a   Koskela, Tapani ^a   Lakkala, Kaisa ^a   Fioletov, Vitali ^d   Bernhard, Germar ^e   McKenzie, Richard ^f   Kondo, Yutaka ^g   O'Neill, Michael ^h   Slaper, Harry ⁱ   den Outer, Peter ⁱ   Bais, Alkiviadis F ^j   Tamminen, Johanna ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e Meteorological Services of Canada Environment Canada ^*  (United States)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^j ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; SOLAR RADIATION; TRACE ELEMENTS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; EOS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IRRADIANCE; MAPPING METHOD; NADIR; NSCAT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRACE GAS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

LAMBERTIA;

EID: 49249083646     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008830     Document Type: Article

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