Surface ultraviolet radiation

Surface Ultraviolet Radiation: Past, Present, and Future

Ultraviolet Radiation on the Surface of Mars

Changes in biologically-active ultraviolet radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

The Montreal Protocol is working. Concentrations of major ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere are now decreasing, and the decline in total column amounts seen in the 1980s and 1990s at mid-latitudes has not continued. In polar regions, there is much greater natural variability. Each spring, large ozone holes continue to occur in Antarctica and less severe regions of depleted ozone cont...

Measurement of ultraviolet radiation at the surface of the eye.

PURPOSE A new method for the measurement of ultraviolet radiation that reaches the surface of the eye is described. METHODS The technique uses contact lenses produced from the ultraviolet-sensitive plastic polysulfone. Two types of polysulfone contact lenses (9 mm and 12 mm in diameter) were manufactured from a polysulfone rod. The 9-mm polysulfone contact lens could be calibrated and used to...

Surface ultraviolet radiation over east Siberia: seasonal variations

The results of spectral measurements of the daily near-noon surface direct solar ultraviolet radiation in the wavelength range of 295–345 nm obtained in Irkutsk (East Siberia) for the time interval of 1998–2000 are presented. For the period under consideration, the seasonal UV radiation variations are analysed that are associated with the total ozone dynamics, the transition of cyclonic and ant...