A modeling approach to determine how much UV radiation is available across the UK and Ireland for health risk and benefit studies

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1073-1081

  Kazantzidis, Andreas ^a,b   Smedley, Andrew ^a   Kift, Richard ^a   Rimmer, John ^a   Berry, Jacqueline L ^a   Rhodes, Lesley E ^a   Webb, Ann R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; IRELAND; RADIATION DOSE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; IRELAND; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84930944059     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5pp00008d     Document Type: Article

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