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Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2165-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2165-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
Research article
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19 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 19 Feb 2019

Surface erythemal UV irradiance in the continental United States derived from ground-based and OMI observations: quality assessment, trend analysis and sampling issues

Huanxin Zhang, Jun Wang, Lorena Castro García, Jing Zeng, Connor Dennhardt, Yang Liu, and Nickolay A. Krotkov

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OMU-based surface erythemal UV irradiance is compared with ground observations in the United States from 2005 to 2017. We reveal that the assumption of constant atmospheric conditions between OMI overpass time and local solar noon time may not fully represent the real atmosphere and the peaks of surface UV are not always at local solar noon because of cloud effects. Future geostationary satellites (e.g., TEMPO) would reduce sampling bias and improve trend analysis of surface UV estimate.
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