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While the problem of estimating expected global changes in surface UV-B is complex, the UV-B input into the troposphere can be estimated quite accurately because of the high quality record of global ozone measurements from the TOMS instrument on Nimbus 7. A continuous record of daily total column ozone measurements extends from November 1978 through May 1993. The relative accuracy of the ozone record from TOMS has been maintained to within ±2% (2 sigma error) over this period, so the measured changes in global ozone over this period can reliably be used to compute UV transmission through the atmosphere. The uncertainties in the calculation of surface UV-B will then be the uncertainties involved in the transmission of UV through the troposphere—uncertainties in assumed cloud cover and in tropospheric aerosol loading.
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McPeters, R. (1994). Monitoring Surface UV-B Radiation from Space. In: Biggs, R.H., Joyner, M.E.B. (eds) Stratospheric Ozone Depletion/UV-B Radiation in the Biosphere. NATO ASI Series, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78884-0_31
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