Empirical studies of cloud effects on UV radiation: A review

J Calbó, D Pages, JA González - Reviews of Geophysics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The interest in solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the scientific community and the general
population has risen significantly in recent years because of the link between increased UV …

Effects of prolonged UV-B exposure in plants

SW Mpoloka - African Journal of Biotechnology, 2008 - ajol.info
Effects of prolonged UV-B exposure in plants Page 1 African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 7
(25), pp. 4874-4883, 29 December, 2008 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB …

Four‐year aerosol observations with a Raman lidar at Thessaloniki, Greece, in the framework of European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET)

V Amiridis, DS Balis, S Kazadzis, A Bais… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Regular aerosol extinction and backscatter measurements using a UV Raman lidar have
been performed from January 2001 to December 2004 at Thessaloniki, Greece (40.5° N …

The USDA ultraviolet radiation monitoring program

DS Bigelow, JR Slusser, AF Beaubien… - Bulletin of the …, 1998 - journals.ametsoc.org
The US Department of Agriculture's Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation Monitoring Program has been
measuring UV radiation since 1994. The initial network of 12 stations employed broadband …

Uncertainty of measurements of spectral solar UV irradiance

G Bernhard, G Seckmeyer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Most investigations on the nature and effects of solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation at the Earth's
surface require measurements of high accuracy combined with well‐defined procedures to …

Raman lidar and sunphotometric measurements of aerosol optical properties over Thessaloniki, Greece during a biomass burning episode

DS Balis, V Amiridis, C Zerefos, E Gerasopoulos… - Atmospheric …, 2003 - Elsevier
The influence of biomass burning smoke on the aerosol loading in the free troposphere over
Thessaloniki, Greece (40.5° N, 22.9° E) is discussed in this paper. A selected case during …

Validation of daily erythemal doses from Ozone Monitoring Instrument with ground‐based UV measurement data

A Tanskanen, A Lindfors, A Määttä… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The Dutch‐Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on board the NASA EOS Aura
spacecraft is a nadir viewing spectrometer that measures solar reflected and backscattered …

Solar UV irradiance in a changing climate: Trends in Europe and the significance of spectral monitoring in Italy

I Fountoulakis, H Diémoz, AM Siani, G Laschewski… - Environments, 2019 - mdpi.com
Review of the existing bibliography shows that the direction and magnitude of the long-term
trends of UV irradiance, and their main drivers, vary significantly throughout Europe …

Optical properties of tropospheric aerosols determined by lidar and spectrophotometric measurements (Photochemical Activity and Solar Ultraviolet Radiation …

F Marenco, V Santacesaria, AF Bais, D Balis… - Applied Optics, 1997 - opg.optica.org
We present the results of the aerosol measurements carried out over the Aegean Sea during
the Photochemical Activity and Solar Ultraviolet Radiation campaign held in Greece during …

Climatological aspects of aerosol optical properties in Northern Greece

E Gerasopoulos, MO Andreae… - Atmospheric …, 2003 - acp.copernicus.org
Measurements of aerosol optical properties (aerosol optical depth, scattering and
backscattering coefficients) have been conducted at two ground-based sites in Northern …