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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5434
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-10-8
pubmed:abstractText
Long-term decreases in summertime ozone over Lauder, New Zealand (45 degrees S), are shown to have led to substantial increases in peak ultraviolet (UV) radiation intensities. In the summer of 1998-99, the peak sunburning UV radiation was about 12 percent more than in the first years of the decade. Larger increases were seen for DNA-damaging UV radiation and plant-damaging UV radiation, whereas UV-A (315 to 400 nanometers) radiation, which is insensitive to ozone, showed no increase, in agreement with model calculations. These results provide strong evidence of human-induced increases in UV radiation, in a region where baseline levels of UV radiation were already relatively high.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
285
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1709-11
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-3-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Increased summertime UV radiation in New Zealand in response to ozone loss.
pubmed:affiliation
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, NIWA Lauder, PB 50061 Omakau, Central Otago, New Zealand. r.mckenzie@niwa.cri.nz
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article