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The Role of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation in Marine Ecosystems

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  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. John Calkins

    1. Albert B. Chandler Medical Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

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Part of the book series: Nato Conference Series (NATOCS, volume 7)

Part of the book sub series: IV Marine Sciences (MARS)

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Table of contents (61 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Atmosphere and Basic Biological Dosimetry

    1. Preface to Section I — Atmosphere and Basic Biological Dosimetry

      • John Calkins
      Pages 1-3

    2. UV-B Reaching the Surface

      • Alex E. S. Green, P. F. Schippnick
      Pages 5-27

    3. Possible Anthropogenic Influences on Stratospheric Ozone

      • F. Sherwood Rowland
      Pages 29-48

    4. Ozone Depletion Calculations

      • Frederick M. Luther, Julius S. Chang, Donald J. Wuebbles, Joyce E. Penner
      Pages 49-71

    5. On the Latitudinal and Seasonal Dependence of Ozone Perturbations

      • Richard S. Stolarski
      Pages 73-77

    6. Middle Ultraviolet Irradiance at the Ocean Surface: Measurements and Models

      • Karen S. Baker, Raymond C. Smith, A. E. S. Green
      Pages 79-91

    7. The Effect of Perturbation of the Total Ozone Column Due to CFC on the Spectral Distribution of UV Fluxes and the Damaging UV Doses at the Ocean Surface: A Model Study

      • Frode Stordal, Øystein Hov, Ivar S. A. Isaksen
      Pages 93-107

    8. Multi-Wavelength Determination of Total Ozone and Ultraviolet Irradiance

      • Alex E. S. Green
      Pages 109-120

    9. Radiometric Measurements in the UV-B Region of Daylight

      • Bernard Goldberg
      Pages 121-129

    10. Photobiological Dosimetry of Environmental Ultraviolet Radiation

      • Claud S. Rupert
      Pages 131-141

    11. Action Spectra

      • John Calkins, Jeanne A. Barcelo
      Pages 143-150

    12. Some Thoughts on UV Action Spectra

      • Martyn M. Caldwell
      Pages 151-156

    13. Action Spectra and Their Role in Solar UV-B Studies

      • A. Eisenstark
      Pages 157-159

    14. Action Spectra: Emphasis Mammalian Cells

      • Thomas P. Coohill
      Pages 161-165

    15. Dosage Units for Biologically Effective UV-B: A Recommendation

      • Martyn M. Caldwell
      Pages 167-168

    16. Measuring Devices and Dosage Units

      • John Calkins
      Pages 169-179

    17. The Sunburn UV Network and its Applicability for Biological Predictions

      • Daniel Berger
      Pages 181-192

    18. Description and Application of a Personal Dosimeter for Measuring Exposure to Natural Ultraviolet Radiation

      • Brian Diffey, Tony Davis, Ian Magnus
      Pages 193-203

    19. Nomograms for Biologically Effective UV

      • David M. Damkaer, Douglas B. Dey
      Pages 205-211
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About this book

The inspiration for this monograph derived from the realization that human technical capacity has become so great that we can, even without malice, substantially modify and damage the gigantic and remote outer limit of our planet, the stratosphere. Above the atmosphere of our ordinary experience, the stratosphere is a tenuous layer of gas, blocked from rapid exchange with the troposphere, some twenty kilometers above the surface of the earth, seldom reached by humans, and yet a fragile shell which shields life on earth from a band of solar radiation of demonstrable injurious potential. It is immediately obvious that if stratospheric ozone were reduced and consequently the intensity of solar ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth's surface were increased, then human skin cancer, known to be related to solar ultraviolet exposure, would also be increased. But how does one even begin to estimate the impact of changed solar ultraviolet radiation on such a diverse. interacting, and complex ecosystem as the oceans? Studies which I conducted in Iceland focused on this question and were noted to the Marine Sciences Panel of the Scientific Affairs Committee of NATO by Professor Unnsteinn Stefansson, leading to a request to investigate the possibility of organizing a NATO sponsored Advanced Research Institute on this topic.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Albert B. Chandler Medical Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

    John Calkins

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Role of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation in Marine Ecosystems

  • Editors: John Calkins

  • Series Title: Nato Conference Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8133-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1982

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-40909-7Due: 31 July 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-8135-8Published: 27 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-8133-4Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 724

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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