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The Ultraviolet Index Is Well Estimated by the Terrestrial Irradiance at 310 nm
Ultraviolet (UV) exposure significantly contributes to non-melanoma skin cancer. In the context of health, UV exposure is the product of time and the UV Index (UVI), a weighted sum of the irradiance I(λ) over all wavelengths from λ = 250 to 400 nm. In our analysis of the United States Environmental...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8401474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34450969 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21165528 |
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author | Kaplan, Peter D. Dumont, Emmanuel L. P. |
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description | Ultraviolet (UV) exposure significantly contributes to non-melanoma skin cancer. In the context of health, UV exposure is the product of time and the UV Index (UVI), a weighted sum of the irradiance I(λ) over all wavelengths from λ = 250 to 400 nm. In our analysis of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s UV-Net database of over 400,000 spectral irradiance measurements taken over several years, we found that the UVI is well estimated by 77 I(310). To further understand this result, we applied an optical atmospheric model to generate terrestrial irradiance spectra and found that it applies across a wide range of conditions. An accurate UVI radiometer can be built from a photodiode covered by a bandpass filter centered at 310 nm. |
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spelling | pubmed-84014742021-08-29 The Ultraviolet Index Is Well Estimated by the Terrestrial Irradiance at 310 nm Kaplan, Peter D. Dumont, Emmanuel L. P. Sensors (Basel) Communication Ultraviolet (UV) exposure significantly contributes to non-melanoma skin cancer. In the context of health, UV exposure is the product of time and the UV Index (UVI), a weighted sum of the irradiance I(λ) over all wavelengths from λ = 250 to 400 nm. In our analysis of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s UV-Net database of over 400,000 spectral irradiance measurements taken over several years, we found that the UVI is well estimated by 77 I(310). To further understand this result, we applied an optical atmospheric model to generate terrestrial irradiance spectra and found that it applies across a wide range of conditions. An accurate UVI radiometer can be built from a photodiode covered by a bandpass filter centered at 310 nm. MDPI 2021-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8401474/ /pubmed/34450969 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21165528 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Kaplan, Peter D. Dumont, Emmanuel L. P. The Ultraviolet Index Is Well Estimated by the Terrestrial Irradiance at 310 nm |
title | The Ultraviolet Index Is Well Estimated by the Terrestrial Irradiance at 310 nm |
title_full | The Ultraviolet Index Is Well Estimated by the Terrestrial Irradiance at 310 nm |
title_fullStr | The Ultraviolet Index Is Well Estimated by the Terrestrial Irradiance at 310 nm |
title_full_unstemmed | The Ultraviolet Index Is Well Estimated by the Terrestrial Irradiance at 310 nm |
title_short | The Ultraviolet Index Is Well Estimated by the Terrestrial Irradiance at 310 nm |
title_sort | ultraviolet index is well estimated by the terrestrial irradiance at 310 nm |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8401474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34450969 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21165528 |
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