Autonomous portable solar ultraviolet spectroradiometer (APSUS) - A new CCD spectrometer system for localized, real-time solar ultraviolet (280-400 nm) radiation measurement

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 903-910

  Hooke, Rebecca ^a   Pearson, Andy ^a   O'Hagan, John ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84903816019     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/php.12251     Document Type: Article

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