The Solar and Ozone Observatory (SOO) of the Czech Hydro-meteorological Institute (CHMI) has a UVB monitoring program in the Czech Republic. The network of five instruments are all operating and form the National Radiation Network of the Czech Republic. Data from four of the five stations is also submitted to the European Database for UV Climatology and Evaluation (EDUCE). The Czech Science Foundation and the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic provide funding for UV monitoring within the country.
Three meters are currently operating at the Solar and Ozone
Observatory in
Hradec Kralove, one at the background Observatory Kosetice, and the
fifth
in Labska Bouda. All instruments undergo regular calibraton either by
SOO/CHMI, LAP/COST/WMO, or International Ozone Services. Four of the
five instruments have participated in intercomparison exercises. Please
contact Dr. Michal Janouch or Milan Vana
for more information on CHMI monitoring.
Click here to find
out more about monitoring at SOO.
Click
here to find out more about monitoring at Kosetice Observatory.
Milan Vana
Czech Hydrometeorological Institute
Kosetice Observatory
Kosetice 394 22
Czech Republic
tel: +420 565 498 015
fax: +420 565 498 015
vanam@chmi.cz
| Instruments in the Czech Republic | |||||
| Instruments | Network | Station Name | Nearest Town | Lat/Lon | Installed |
| Brewer Mark IV | CHMI/EDUCE | Hradec Kralove | Hradec Kralove | 50.18N, 15.83E | Dec. 1994 |
| Brewer Mark III | CHMI/EDUCE | Hradec Kralove | Hradec Kralove | 50.18N, 15.83E | June 2004 |
| UV-Biometer, model 501 | CHMI/EDUCE | Hradec Kralove | Hradec Kralove | 50.18N, 15.83E | July 1995 |
| UV-Biometer, model 501 | CHMI | Labska Bouda | Hradec Kralove | 50.76N, 15.55E | Jan. 2004 |
| UV-Biometer, model 501 version 3 | CHMI / IPC-IM | Kosetice Observatory | Kosetice | 50.18N, 15.83E | July 1995 |
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Daily UV Index for Czech Republic as a color map supplied by the Czech Meteorological Institute. Accompanying text is in Czech. |
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Overview of Czech Hydrometeorological activities including their UV index program |