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Ground-Based Measurement of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation
Citation:
HALL, E. S. Ground-Based Measurement of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation. 2009, Chapter A-Z, David Blumel, Stefan Malmoli, Jessa Netting (ed.), McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, NY, , 150-155, (2009).
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory′s (NERL) Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD) conducts research in support of EPA′s mission to protect human health and the environment. HEASD′s research program supports Goal 1 (Clean Air) and Goal 4 (Healthy People) of EPA′s strategic plan. More specifically, our division conducts research to characterize the movement of pollutants from the source to contact with humans. Our multidisciplinary research program produces Methods, Measurements, and Models to identify relationships between and characterize processes that link source emissions, environmental concentrations, human exposures, and target-tissue dose. The impact of these tools is improved regulatory programs and policies for EPA.
Description:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implemented a research program between 1996 and 2004 to measure UV at 21 unique locations through out the U.S. The program conducted long-term monitoring of UV to detect trends due to changes in the amount of stratospheric O3.