UV monitoring network

Since the 1990s, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, BfS) operates a nationwide network in Germany for solar ultraviolet radiation monitoring in cooperation with Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Germany's National Meteorological Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst) and other associated institutions.

The network includes twelve stations at defined locations in Germany, at which the solar UV irradiance is spectrally resolved measured from sunrise to sunset. Currently, the network is being expanded to twenty additional stations equipped with small and low-cost UV Index sensors (filter/broadband radiometer) for UV Index determining.