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Techniques for Measuring Solar Ultraviolet Radiation

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Human Bioclimatology

Part of the book series: Advances in Bioclimatology ((ADVS BIOCLIMAT.,volume 5))

Abstract

The Latin for “beyond” is ultra, thus ultraviolet (UV) radiation is that part of the electromagnetic spectrum having wavelengths beyond (shorter than) the violet end of the of the visible spectrum. The complete UV waveband covers the wavelength range 200–400 nm, but it is subdivided into three regions labelled UVA, UVB and UVC. The boundaries between the three classes of UV radiation, determined by the definition of UVB radiation, vary throughout the scientific literature, with the short-wavelength boundary usually lying between 280 and 290 nm and the long-wavelength boundary between 315 and 320 nm. The Commission Internationale d’Eclairage (CIE) define UVB radiation as the waveband 280–315 nm, but in discussions of solar UV radiation and its effects the wavelengths between 280 and 320 nm are often quoted as UVB. For the purposes of this article a precise statement of the UVB waveband is not necessary. The atmosphere imposes a varying short-wavelength limit on solar UVB radiation reaching the earth’s surface, which for much of the globe is greater than 290 nm. At the long-wavelength boundary no broadband instrument or biological action spectrum has a total and abrupt end of response in the UVB/UVA cross-over region, so another fuzzy demarcation is not a disadvantage but a practical occurrence.

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Webb, A.R. (1998). Techniques for Measuring Solar Ultraviolet Radiation. In: Auliciems, A. (eds) Human Bioclimatology. Advances in Bioclimatology, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80419-9_2

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