National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)
Central UV Calibration Facility
facilitytest / environmentalIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- NOAA Boulder
Description
Central UV Calibration Facility, operational since 1997 as a joint NOAA–NIST project, providing accurate, long-term repeatable calibrations and characterizations of UV monitoring instruments, including secondary irradiance standards, laboratory irradiance calibration and angular response measurements; Table Mountain Test Facility serves as its intercomparison testbed.
Official page
https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/calfacil/
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Details
- Keywords
- uv radiometry, irradiance standards, angular response measurements, instrument intercomparisons, table mountain test facility, uv monitoring instruments
- Location
- Table Mountain, Boulder, Colorado
- Location
- place named in page text: Table Mountain, Boulder
- Associated entity
- NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
- Specifications
- The Table Mountain Test Facility, located about 10 km north of Boulder, is home to several UV instruments and provides a useful testbed for intercomparisons. | Elevation: 5541.3 ft, 1689 m