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- General Ozone and UV Information
- Educational Resources
- UV Index and Public Health
- UV monitoring networks in the U.S.
- UV monitoring networks outside the U.S.
- Satellite Ozone and UV data
- Resources for Tracking the Ozone Hole
- Radiative Transfer Codes
- Organizations Supporting Research in the Arctic and Antarctic
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General Ozone and UV Information
- WMO UV radiation page
uv.colorado.edu/UV - World Ozone and UV Data Center
www.woudc.org - Ozone Secretariat United Nations Environment Programme
www.unep.org/ozone - WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010
www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/assessments/ozone/2010/report.html
Educational Resources
- Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2010 Update
Part of WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010
www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/ozone_2010/
documents/twentyquestions.pdf - FAQ on Ozone Depletion
Provided by the Internet FAQ Archives
www.faqs.org/faqs/ozone-depletion/ - Textbook on Stratospheric Ozone
Compiled by NASA
www.ccpo.odu.edu/~lizsmith/SEES/ozone/oz_class.htm - Primer on UV-B radiation
Compiled by USDA UVB Monitoring Program, Colorado State University
uvb.nrel.colostate.edu/UVB/publications/uvb_primer.pdf
UV Index and Public Health
- Global Solar UV Index - A Practical Guide
Published by WHO, WMO, UNEP, and ICNIRP
www.unep.org/PDF/Solar_Index_Guide.pdf - UV Index forecast for the U.S.
Provided by NOAA
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
products/stratosphere/uv_index/uv_current.shtml - Global UV Index forecast
Provided by University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
www-med-physik.vu-wien.ac.at/uv/uv_online.htm - SunWise School Program
Established by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov/sunwise/ - Ultraviolet radiation and the INTERSUN Programme
Provided by World Health Organization
www.who.int/uv/en/
UV monitoring networks in the U.S.
- National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs
Maintained by Biospherical Instruments Inc.
uv.biospherical.com - NOAA Antarctic UV Monitoring Network
Continuation of Biospherical Instruments' UV monitoring efforts in Antarctica
www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/antuv/ - United States Department of Agriculture
UV-B Monitoring and Research Program
Maintained by Colorado State University
uvb.nrel.colostate.edu/UVB - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ultraviolet Monitoring Program: UV-Net
www.epa.gov/uvnet/ - Smithsonian
Maintained by Smithonian Environmental Research Center
serc.si.edu/labs/photobiology/monitoring_overview.aspx - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- NOAA's Central UV Calibration Facility
www.srrb.noaa.gov/calfacil/cucfhome.html - NOAA's Integrated Surface Irradiance Study (ISIS)
www.srrb.noaa.gov/isis/ - NOAA's Surface Radiation Budget Measurement Network (SURFRAD)
www.srrb.noaa.gov/surfrad/
- NOAA's Central UV Calibration Facility
- Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program
Supported by U.S. Department of Energy
www.arm.gov
UV monitoring networks outside the U.S.
The links below give only access to the most prominent international UV monitoring activites. See the WMO UV radiation page for a listing of UV monitoring activities by country.
- World Ozone and UV Data Center
www.woudc.org - European Database for UV Climatology and Evaluation (EDUCE)
www.muk.uni-hannover.de/~seckmeyer/EDUCE/ - Canadian Ozone and Ultraviolet Measurement Program
exp-studies.tor.ec.gc.ca/e/ozone/ozonecanada.htm
Satellite Ozone and UV data
- Overpass data provided by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument(OMI)
avdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.php?site=1593048672&id=28 - SBUV/2
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/sbuv2to/ - TOVS
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/tovsto/ - SCIAMACHY, GOME and OMI total ozone provided by ESA
www.temis.nl/protocols/O3total.html and
www.temis.nl/protocols/o3field/o3month_omi.php
Resources for Tracking the Ozone Hole
- WMO Ozone Bulletins
www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/ozone/ - NASA Ozone Hole Watch page
ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov - NASA portal to satellite ozone data
ozoneaq.gsfc.nasa.gov/instruments.md - Ozone hole monitoring by NOAA-16 SBUV/2 satellite
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/
polar/gif_files/ozone_hole_plot.png - Ozone sonde measurements at the South Pole
Provided by NOAA/CMDL
www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/dv/spo_oz/spoplots.html - Ozone Bulletin from the British Antarctic Survey
www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/jds/ozone/ - Ozone Soundings from Neumayer Station
Radiative Transfer Codes
- TUV
www.acd.ucar.edu/TUV/ - libRadtran
www.libradtran.org/ - STAR
www.meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/
strahlung/uvrad/Star/STARinfo.htm - FASTRT
zardoz.nilu.no/~olaeng/fastrt/fastrt.html - SBDART
www.paulschou.com/tools/sbdart/ - SMARTS
rredc.nrel.gov/solar/models/SMARTS/
Organizations Supporting Research in the Arctic and Antarctic
- National Science Foundations Office of Polar Programs
www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=opp - Directory of Polar and Cold Regions Organisations
www.spri.cam.ac.uk/resources/organisations/ - United States Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
dels.nas.edu/global/prb/scar - Arctic Research Consortium of the United States
www.arcus.org - Raytheon Polar Services Company
United States Antarctic Program
www.usap.gov - Polar Field Services
Logistics for the Arctic
www.polarfield.com/ - Greenland Environmental Observatory at Summit, Greenland
www.geosummit.org
