Variations and trends of biologically effective doses of solar ultraviolet radiation in Asia, Europe and South America from 1999 to 2007

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1117-1124

  Munakata, Nobuo ^a   Kazadzis, Stelios ^b,e   Bolseé, David ^c   Schuch, Nelson ^d   Koskela, Tapani ^e   Karpetchko, Alex ^e   Meleti, Charoula ^b   Casiccia, Claudio ^f   Barcellos Da Rosa, Marcelo ^e,g   Saida, Toshiaki ^h   Nishigori, Chikako ⁱ   Ogata, Katsumi ^j   Imafuku, Kazuhiro ^k   Liu, Chung Ming ^l   Lestari, Sri ^m   Kanoko, Mpu ⁿ   Cornain, Santoso ⁿ   Mulyadi, Ketut ^o   Hieda, Kotaro ^a  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^e FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSIDADE VALE DO RIO DOCE   (Brazil)

^h SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

ⁱ KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^l NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^m ANDALAS UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^o UDAYANA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE; RAIN;

ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOSIMETER; EUROPE; LATITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SOLAR RADIATION; SOUTH AMERICA; SUMMER;

THESSALONIKI;

ASIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; OZONE; RADIATION MONITORING; SOLAR SYSTEM; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 68749102337     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b906975e     Document Type: Article

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