Data flow of spectral UV measurements at Sodankylä and Jokioinen

Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 193-203

  Mäkelä, Jakke Sakari ^a,d   Lakkala, Kaisa ^a   Koskela, Tapani ^a   Karppinen, Tomi ^a   Matti Karhu, Juha ^a   Savastiouk, Vladimir ^b   Suokanerva, Hanne ^a   Kaurola, Jussi ^a   Arola, Antti ^a   Vilhelm Lindfors, Anders ^a   Meinander, Outi ^a   De Leeuw, Gerrit ^a,c   Heikkilä, Anu ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b IOS Inc   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA TRANSFER;

BREWER SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MONITORING PROGRAMS; MULTIPHASE PROCESS; PROCESSING PROCEDURES; SOLAR UV RADIATION; SPECTRAL UV MEASUREMENTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; IRRADIANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FINLAND; JOKIOINEN; KANTA-HAME; LAPPI [FINLAND]; SODANKYLA;

EID: 84974603760     PISSN: 21930856     EISSN: 21930864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gi-5-193-2016     Document Type: Article

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