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A STUDY OF SOLAR ERYTHEMA RADIATION DOSES *
Author(s) -
Green A. E. S.,
Mo T.,
Miller J. H.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1974.tb06606.x
Subject(s) - erythema , ultraviolet , irradiance , radiation , spectral line , physics , dermatology , optics , medicine , quantum mechanics
Abstract —Using semi‐empirical analytic formulas for the transmitted and scattered ultraviolet spectral irradiance at the ground (Green, A. E. S., T. Sawada and E. P. Shettle, Photochem. Photobiol . 19 , 251–259, 1974), we calculate erythema dose rates and daily erythema doses. Results are illustrated graphically, and for the purpose of photobiological applications are given in terms of approximate analytic forms, with parameters presented in tabular form. The relative erythema data assembled by W. W. Coblentz and R. Stair ( U.S. Bureau of Standards J. Res . 12 , 13–14, 1934), as fit by an analytic form, is taken as a standard spectrum in our calculations. Other forms of erythema spectra are also compared.