Extreme ultraviolet index due to broken clouds at a midlatitude site, Granada (southeastern Spain)

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 118, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-14

  Anton M ^a   Piedehierro, A A ^b   Alados Arboledas, L ^a   Wolfran, E ^c   Olmo, F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c CEILAP UNIDEF (MINDEF CONICET)   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cloud enhancement; Ultraviolet erythemal irradiance; UV index

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD ENHANCEMENTS; CLOUD FIELDS; CUMULUS CLOUD; EMPIRICAL MODEL; ENHANCEMENT EFFECTS; ERYTHEMAL IRRADIANCE; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET; EXTREME UV; GLOBAL OZONE MONITORING EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN SKIN; MAXIMUM VALUES; MIDLATITUDES; SKY CONDITION; TOTAL OZONE COLUMN; ULTRA-VIOLET; UV INDEX;

SUN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

OZONE;

CLOUD COVER; IRRADIANCE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR RADIATION; TOTAL OZONE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANDALUCIA; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; SPAIN;

EID: 84862650732     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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