Record solar UV irradiance in the tropical Andes

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Cabrol, Nathalie A ^a   Feister, Uwe ^b   Häder, Donat Peter ^c   Piazena, Helmut ^d   Grin, Edmond A ^a   Klein, Andreas ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Negative ozone anomaly; Record solar UV irradiance; UV index

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063830916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2014.00019     Document Type: Article

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