NOAA-ERL solar ultraviolet radiation and climate research project: Program description and progress
Abstract
Research of the temporal variations of solar ultraviolet radiation is reviewed. Progress on a collaborative program to analyze Dr. D. F. Heath's NIMBUS-7 SBUV measurements of the solar UV spectral irradiance is summarized. Significant progress has been made on determining the wavelength and temporal characteristics of UV variations caused by solar active region evolution (birth, growth, peak, decay and occasionally rejuvenation) and by solar rotation (area foreshortening, center-to-limb darkening and limb occulation). Work on trying to corroborate an observed semiannual UV variation has commenced. Extensive progress on modeling solar UV variations has been achieved. Support for improved rocket-flight measurements of solar UV spectral irradiance is discussed. The importance of obtaining accurate recalibration is stressed.
- Publication:
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Progress Report National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Pub Date:
- September 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982noaa.rept.....D
- Keywords:
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- Climatology;
- Earth Ionosphere;
- Irradiance;
- Solar Radiation;
- Ultraviolet Radiation;
- Harmonic Analysis;
- Nimbus 7 Satellite;
- Photochemical Reactions;
- Variability;
- Solar Physics