Short-term variations in surface UV-B irradiance and total ozone column at Ny-Ålesund during the QAARC campaign

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 108, Issue , 2012, Pages 9-18

  Petkov, Boyan ^a,b   Vitale, Vito ^a   Gröbner, Julian ^c   Hülsen, Gregor ^c   De Simone, Sara ^d   Gallo, Veronica ^d   Tomasi, Claudio ^a   Busetto, Maurizio ^a   Barth, Vigdis Lonar ^e   Lanconelli, Christian ^a   Mazzola, Mauro ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic ozone column; Diurnal ozone column variations; Radiation amplification factor (RAF)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; ARCTIC STATION; BEST-FIT SOLUTIONS; DATA SETS; DIURNAL OZONE COLUMN VARIATIONS; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; DIURNAL VARIATION; FIELD MEASUREMENT; MODEL EVALUATION; OZONE COLUMN; POWER CURVES; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SHORT-TERM VARIATIONS; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS; SVALBARD; TOTAL OZONE; TOTAL OZONE COLUMN; UV IRRADIANCES;

AMPLIFICATION;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; IRRADIANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOTAL OZONE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ARCTIC; NY-ALESUND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84858152502     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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