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The Direccion Meteorologica de Chile currently has eight UV monitoring instruments in South America. These eight instruments make up a national network for solar radiation measurements. The person in charge of these instruments is Mr. Jorge Carreno C., meteorologist for the Department of Climatology and Applied Meteorology.
In addition, there is a network of 7 NILUV instruments in Torres del Paine National Park (about 400 km north of Punta Arenas). The instruments have four channels (308 nm, 313 nm, 320 nm and 340 nm). Power from solar cells / batter. The instruments are calibrated once or twice a year with a reference instrument. The reference instrument is checked against the GUV-511 which is calibrated at Biospherical Instruments once a year.
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