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An instrument for measuring radiation from the sky by comparing the heating effect of such radiation upon two blackened metallic strips with that produced in the same strips when heated by means of an electric current.

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  • Derivation of UV-A irradiance from pyranometer measurements.
  • I will have a pyranometer running in parallel for the screen test, along with air temp and wind.
  • Long-term variations of UV-B irradiance over Canada estimated from Brewer observations and derived from ozone and pyranometer measurements.
  • We measured incoming and reflected solar radiation with a LI-200SL pyranometer (LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, USA), for which the spectral response includes the...
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