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UV-B Monitoring Climatological and Research Network Program - Agronomy Center for Research and Education, United States Department of Agriculture

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posted on 2023-11-30, 08:41 authored by USDA/ARS > Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture

The UV-B Monitoring and Research Program operates a national network of solar irradiance monitoring stations equipped with instruments which provide measurements to meet the needs of both agricultural and atmospheric researchers. Two of the instruments deployed in the network are unique since they provide the important and useful direct component of solar irradiance without the expense and complexity of a solar tracker. Instrumentation includes: - Ultraviolet Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer: Direct, Total Horizontal, and Diffuse UV Irradiance at nominal 300, 305, 311, 317, 325, 332 and 368 nano-meter wavelengths - Photosynthetically Active Radiation Sensor: 400 - 700 nano-meter wavelengths - Broadband UVB-1 Pyranometer: (280-320 nm, erythemal weighted for skin damage) - Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer: Direct, Total Horizontal and Diffuse Visible Irradiance at nominal 415, 500, 615, 673, 870, 940 nano-meter wavelengths, plus one unfiltered (open) silicon photodiode of 300-1040 nm. - Barometric Pressure Sensor - Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Sensor - Downward Looking Photometer - UV-A biometer All instruments have on-board data logging capability. Measurements are provided as 3-minute averages, aggregated from 15/20 second readings of each instruments' raw output voltage.

Resources in this dataset:

Resource Title: GeoData catalog record.

File Name: Web Page, url: https://geodata.nal.usda.gov/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/AgronomyCenter_eaa_2015_March_30_1213

Funding

Agricultural Research Service

National Institute of Food and Agriculture

History

Data contact name

UV-B Monitoring and Research Program, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

Data contact email

webmaster-uvb@uvb.nrel.colostate.edu

Publisher

UV-B Monitoring and Research Program, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

Intended use

- Provides information to the agricultural community and others about the climatological and geographical distribution of UV-B irradiance; - Furnishes the basic information necessary to support evaluations of the potential damaging effects of UV-B to agricultural crops and forests; - Supplies ground truth for satellite measurements of UV-B, and basic information for radiation transfer model calculations; and - Establishes long-term records of UV-B irradiance necessary to assess trends.

Temporal Extent Start Date

2001-04-07

Theme

Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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ISO Topic Category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
environment
farming

Ag Data Commons Group

Eastern Corn Belt
Long-Term Agroecosystem Research

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

ultraviolet radiation; monitoring; research programs; solar radiation; researchers; instrumentation; wavelengths; photosynthetically active radiation; light intensity; silicon; air temperature; relative humidity; photometers; geographical distribution; crops; forests; satellites; models

OMB Bureau Code

005:18 - Agricultural Research Service

OMB Program Code

005:040 - National Research

Pending citation

Public Access Level

Public

Preferred dataset citation

USDA/ARS > Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (2020). UV-B Monitoring Climatological and Research Network Program - Agronomy Center for Research and Education, United States Department of Agriculture. UV-B Monitoring and Research Program, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory.