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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: 2006
www.wmo.ch/web/arep/reports/ozone_2006/
ozone_asst_report.html
Educational Resources
- Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer
Part of WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2002
www.wmo.ch/web/arep/reports/ozone_2002/q&as.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/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/ - UV Index and Sun Protection
Provided by Meteorological Service of Canada
www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/uvindex/index_e.html - 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.
www.biospherical.com/NSF - 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
www.serc.si.edu/labs/photobiology/monitoring_overview.jsp - 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 Solar and Thermal Atmospheric Radiation (STAR)
Part of NOAA's Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
www.cmdl.noaa.gov/star/
- NOAA's Central UV Calibration Facility
- Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program
Supported by U.S. Department of Energy
www.arm.gov - Overview US National UV Network
www.arl.noaa.gov/research/programs/uv.html
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/~martin/ - Canadian Ozone and Ultraviolet Measurement Program
exp-studies.tor.ec.gc.ca/e/ozone/ozonecanada.htm - New Zealand's National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
www.niwascience.co.nz/rc/prog/ozone/intro/surface
Satellite Ozone and UV data
- Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) and
Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) data provided by NASA
toms.gsfc.nasa.gov - 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.ch/web/arep/ozone.html - UV bulletins of the NSF UV monitoring network
www.biospherical.com/NSF/bulletins/latest.asp - NASA Ozone Hole Watch page
ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov - NASA/TOMS ozone hole monitoring page
jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/eptoms/dataqual/ozone.html - 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.cmdl.noaa.gov/ozwv/ozsondes/spo/spoplots.html - Ozone Bulletin from the British Antarctic Survey
www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/jds/ozone/ - Ozone Soundings from Neumayer Station
Provided by the German Alfred-Wegener Institute
www.awi-bremerhaven.de/MET/Neumayer/ozone.html
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.icess.ucsb.edu/esrg/pauls_dir/ - 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)
usscar.tamu.edu/ - Arctic Research Consortium of the United States
www.arcus.org - Raytheon Polar Services Company
Logistics for the Antarctic
www.usap.gov - VECO Polar Resources
Logistics for the Arctic
www.vecopolar.com - Greenland Environmental Observatory at Summit, Greenland
www.geosummit.org - Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC)
www.arcticscience.org
