Association between provincial sunshine duration and mortality rates in China: Panel data study [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Background: mortality rates are usually influenced by the variations of environmental factors. However, there are few studies on the impact of sunlight duration induced mortality.
Yu Fu, Weidong Wang
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Effect of Sunshine Duration on Myopia in Primary School Students from Northern and Southern China [PDF]
International Journal of General Medicine, 2021 Lin Leng,1 Jiafan Zhang,1 Sen Xie,2 Wenzhi Ding,1 Rongyuan Ji,1 Yuyin Tian,1 Keli Long,1 Hongliang Yu,3 Zhen Guo1 1Department of Ophthalmology, Qingdao Eye Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base, Shandong ...
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Satellite-Based Sunshine Duration for Europe [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2013 In this study, two different methods were applied to derive daily and monthly sunshine duration based on high-resolution satellite products provided by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) Satellite ...
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Development and Validation of an Autonomous System for Measurement of Sunshine Duration [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 This paper presented an autonomous electronic system for sunshine duration (SD) monitoring based on the contrast method and developed to operate on a horizontal surface. The prototype uses four photoresistors arranged at 90° in a 20 mm diameter circumference separated by a shading structure used to create a shadow pattern on the detection element ...
Álvaro B. da Rocha +4 more
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The Impact of Sunshine Duration on Myopia in Central China: Insights from Populational and Spatial Analysis in Hubei [PDF]
International Journal of General MedicineRunting Ma, Lianhong Zhou, Wenping Li, Yuanjin Li, Diewenjie Hu, Yi Lu, Cancan Zhang, Beixi Yi Department of Ophthalmology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Lianhong Zhou, Department of Ophthalmology ...
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A comparison of sunshine duration records from the Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder and CSD3 sunshine duration sensor [PDF]
Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to compare daily sunshine duration data measured using a Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder (CS) and a CSD3 sunshine duration sensor (AUTO) as well as to attempt to explain discrepancies between the two data sets. The paper is based on heliographic data and cloudiness observations for 2007–2012.
Dorota Matuszko
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Impact of temperature and sunshine duration on daily new cases and death due to COVID-19 [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020 Context: Control of COVID-19 has now become a critical issue for public health. Many ecological factors are proven to influence the transmission and survival of the virus.
Swati Thangariyal +4 more
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Association between sunshine hours and suicide attempts: Evidence from a retrospective study in Southern India [PDF]
Indian Journal of PsychiatryBackground: Suicide is a growing public health concern in India. While psychological and sociocultural factors are well studied, the role of climatic influences like sunshine duration remains underexplored.
Murugavel Veeramani +2 more
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A Method to Estimate Sunshine Duration Using Cloud Classification Data from a Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (FY-2D) over the Heihe River Basin [PDF]
Sensors, 2016 Sunshine duration is an important variable that is widely used in atmospheric energy balance studies, analysis of the thermal loadings on buildings, climate research, and the evaluation of agricultural resources.
Bingfang Wu +5 more
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Spectral influence analysis on sunshine duration measurement [PDF]
The Journal of Engineering, 2019 Sunshine duration is an important variable in surface meteorological measurement. In this article, two methods for measuring sunshine duration are described, one is photovoltaic-based instrument, which ranges from 400 to 1100 nm, and the other is ...
Wei Chong +5 more
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