Biologically weighted daily radiant exposure for erythema appearance, previtamin D3 synthesis and clearing of psoriatic lesions from erythema biometers at Belsk, Poland, for the period 1976-2023

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Long-term measurements of surface UV intensity that have undergone quality control procedures are very limited. The database presented here contains selected biologically weighted daily radiation exposures (for the erythema appearance, previtamin D3 synthesis, and clearing of psoriatic lesions) based on monitoring of erythema irradiance in the Central Geophysical Laboratory of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Belsk (20.79°E, 51.84°N, 188 m amsl) from January 01, 1976 to December 31, 2023. The following broadband instruments were involved in continuous measurements of the erythemal irradiance: Robertson-Berger (1975-1992 after correction for temperature effects), Solar Light model 501 (1993-1994 with No. 927, 1995-2013 with No. 2011) and Kipp-Zonen UV-AE-T No. 30616 (KZ) from September 2013 to the present. The homogenization procedure applied to the pre-September 2013 data consisted of a comparison of the measured daily erythemal radiant exposure (RE) during sunny days with the corresponding hypothetical daily erythemal RE calculated by the tropospheric ultraviolet and visible radiation (TUV) model (https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/modeling/tuv-download). Subsequently, a comparison of the daily erythemal RE measured by KZ and the collocated Brewer Mark II spectrophotometer No. 64 during cloudless days provided the calibration of the biometer measurements. Using the corrected data, a regression model of the daily erythemal RE was built (separately for the years 1976-1992, 1993-2013 and 2014-2023) using the following explanatory variables: total column ozone content from the collocated Dobson spectrophotometer No.84, solar zenith angle at the noon, and the clearness index from measurements of total solar radiation (300-3000 nm) with collocated pyranometers. If there was a large difference (exceeding the 2-sigma level) between the measured daily RE value and the value obtained from the regression model, the data was flagged as data of uncertain quality. Transfer coefficients from daily erythemal RE to other biologically weighted daily RE, based on the methodology of Czerwińska and Krzyścin (2024), were used to calculate other biologically weighted daily RE, for previtamin D3 synthesis and clearing of psoriatic lesions.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.972139
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Creator Krzyścin, Janusz W ORCID logo; Sobolewski, Piotr ORCID logo; Czerwińska, Agnieszka; Rajewska-Więch, Bonawentura ORCID logo; Jarosławski, Janusz
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference European Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 Crossref Funder ID ENV4-CT95-0165 Ultraviolet Radiation in the Arctic: Past, Present, and Future - UVRAPPF; European Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 Crossref Funder ID EVK2-CT-1999-00028 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/EVK2-CT-1999-00028 European database for ultraviolet radiation climatology and evaluation - EDUCE; European Cooperation in Science and Technology https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000921 Crossref Funder ID COST726 https://www.cost.eu/actions/726/ 726 - Long term changes and climatology of UV radiation over Europe; National Centre for Research and Development https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005632 Crossref Funder ID 6PO4D05717 Variability of ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth's surface as a function of atmospheric state and on different time scales; National Science Centre Poland https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004281 Crossref Funder ID NCN2012/05/B/ST10/00495 Modelling of solar UV radiation reaching the Earth's surface for the evaluation of the effectiveness of heliotherapy for psoriasis in Poland
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 138056 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (20.791 LON, 51.835 LAT); Poland
Temporal Coverage Begin 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-12-31T00:00:00Z