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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 31.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Dermatol. 2010 Nov;146(11):1241–1247. doi: 10.1001/archdermatol.2010.327

Table 1.

Average direct, diffuse, and reflected UV as measured in UV Index Units (n=487 measurement points)

Type of UV1 Mean sd Maximum2 Correlation Between
Measures3
Direct UV 2.63 2.21 10.0 0.97
Diffuse UV 1.84 1.52 8.0 0.94
Reflect UV 1.49 1.31 9.5 0.90
Total UV 1.99 1.62 8.0
1

The two readings taken at each measurement were averaged prior to calculating mean reading; total UV is the mean of all six readings at each measurement.

2

Minimum value for all measures was 0.0

3

Pearson correlations between the two measures taken at each measurement.