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A program of ultraviolet-B radiation monitoring using specially equipped Brewer Ozone Spectrophotometers has been in place in Canada since 1989. The network has recently been expanded to 12 stations which are distributed throughout the country and now report ozone and UV-B values automatically in near-real-time to the Canadian meteorological data collection network. These data are used to prepare operational forecasts of ozone and UV-B radiation levels for distribution to the Canadian public. Some results of the monitoring program, the performance of the instrumentation and the methods used for the calibration of the field instruments will be discussed.
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McElroy, C.T., Kerr, J.B., McArthur, L.J.B., Wardle, D.I. (1994). Ground-Based Monitoring of UV-B Radiation in Canada. 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_38
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