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Jun-lin An1, Yue-si Wang, Xin Li

  • 1Department of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China. junlinan@nuist.edu.cn

Huan Jing Ke Xue= Huanjing Kexue
|July 22, 2008
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Air pollution significantly reduces ground-level ultraviolet (UV) radiation in Beijing, with pollutants like ozone and nitrogen oxides causing up to a 50% decrease. This UV reduction is more pronounced than that of total solar radiation.

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