@article{14f95218e1ad4c87a421ba4cf3571074,
title = "2003 North American interagency intercomparison of ultraviolet spectroradiometers: Scanning and spectrograph instruments",
abstract = "The fifth North American Intercomparison of Ultraviolet Monitoring Spectroradiometers was held June 13 to 21, 2003 at Table Mountain outside of Boulder, Colorado, USA. The main purpose of the Intercomparison was to assess the ability of spectroradiometers to accurately measure solar ultraviolet irradiance, and to compare the results between instruments of different monitoring networks. This Intercomparison was coordinated by NOAA and included participants from six national and international agencies. The UV measuring instruments included scanning spectroradiometers, spectrographs, and multi-filter radiometers. Synchronized spectral scans of the solar irradiance were performed between June 16 and 20, 2003. The spectral responsivities were determined for each instrument using the participants' lamps and calibration procedures and with NOAA/CUCF standard lamps. This paper covers the scanning spectroradiometers and the one spectrograph. The solar irradiance measurements from the different instruments were deconvolved using a high resolution extraterrestrial solar irradiance and reconvolved with a 1-nm triangular band-pass to account for differences in the bandwidths of the instruments. The measured solar irradiance from the spectroradiometers using the rivmSHIC algorithm on a clear-sky day on DOY 172 at 17.0 UTC (SZA = 30o) had a relative 1-σ standard deviation of +/-2.6 to 3.4% for 300- to 360-nm using the participants' calibration.",
author = "Kathleen Lantz and Patrick Disterhoft and James Slusser and Wei Gao and Jerry Berndt and Germar Bernhard and Sarah Bloms and Rocky Booth and James Ehramjian and Lee Harrison and George Janson and Paul Johnston and Piotr Kiedron and Richard McKenzie and Michael Kimlin and Patrick Neale and Michael O'Neill and Quang, {Vi V.} and Gunther Seckmeyer and Thomas Taylor and Sigrid Wuttke and Joseph Michalsky",
note = "Funding Information: Operation of the National Science Foundation{\textquoteright}s Polar Ultraviolet Monitoring Network, along with participation in this Intercomparison, was funded from Antarctic Support Associates at the National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs. Operation of the National Ultraviolet Monitoring Network, along with participation in this Intercomparison, was funded through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Assistance. Development of the U111 Ultraviolet Scanning Radiometer, participation in this Intercomparison, and operation of the USDA UV Network was funded by the US Department of Agriculture UV-B Monitoring and Research Program through contracts 2003-34263-13509 and 2004-34263-14270 under the direction of Dr. Daniel Schmoldt. Funding Information: The fifth Intercomparison was coordinated by the Central UV Calibration Facility (CUCF), Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The following agencies and organizations participated: the National UV Monitoring Center (NUVMC) at the University of Georgia which administered the Environmental Protection Agency{\textquoteright}s (EPA) UV Network from 1995-2005; the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) of New Zealand; the Ozone and Water Vapor Group of the Global Monitoring Division (GMD) of the Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Biospherical Instruments which administers the National Science Foundation{\textquoteright}s (NSF) UV Monitoring Network for Polar Regions, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) of Colorado State University (CSU) which administers the Department of Agriculture{\textquoteright}s (USDA) UV Monitoring Network [12], the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) of the State University of New York (SUNY) which represents the USDA monitoring program, and the Institute of Meteorology and Climatology (IMUK), University of Hanover, Hanover, Germany. A list of agencies and their instruments is given in Table 1. For the remainder of this paper, the instruments will be designated ASRC_RSS, NOAA_NIWA, EPA_BRW, NSF_SUV, USDA_U11 where the acronym conveys the UV Network or agency followed by the instrument type.",
year = "2008",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1117/1.3040299",
language = "English",
volume = "2",
journal = "Journal of Applied Remote Sensing",
issn = "1931-3195",
publisher = "SPIE",
number = "1",
}