The use of NEOPLANTA model for evaluating the UV index in the Vojvodina region (Serbia)

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 621-630

  Malinovic Milicevic, Slavica ^a   Mihailovic, Dragutin T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b University of Novi Sad   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Modeling; Ozone; UV index; UV models; UV radiation

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; DATA SOURCE; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MONITORING AND FORECAST; MONITORING PROGRAMS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRONG CORRELATION; TIME RESOLUTION; ULTRA-VIOLET; UV INDEX; UV MODELS;

CLOUDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OZONE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

MONITORING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLOUD COVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

SERBIA; VOJVODINA;

EID: 79960145235     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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