{"id":3667,"date":"2017-04-21T06:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2017-04-21T06:47:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:47:44","slug":"canadian-scientists-developed-the-uv-index-celebrate-earth-day-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2017\/04\/21\/canadian-scientists-developed-the-uv-index-celebrate-earth-day-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Scientists developed the UV Index &#8211; Celebrate Earth Day and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The UV index (a linear scale) was developed by Canadian Scientists in 1992. &nbsp;Later the scale was standardized for international use by the World Health Organization (WHO). &nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The scale is used to help people protect their skin from sun damage (DNA damage, skin cancer, aging and immunosuppresion).<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>5 Fast Facts:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The UV of potentially greatest damage occupies a spectrum of wavelength 295 to 325 nm. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The shorter the wavelength the more damaging the potential for sun damage<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The UV Power Spectrum (units Watts\/square metre) is multiplied on a weighting curve. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The UV index can be used over the whole spectrum (erythemal action spectrum).<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Environmental Canada Scientists (B. Kerr, T. McElroy and D. Wardle) developed the modern UV index. &nbsp;Canada was the first country to introduce official predictions of UV levels.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YY13Fok_K80\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UV index (a linear scale) was developed by Canadian Scientists in 1992. &nbsp;Later the scale was standardized for international use by the World Health Organization (WHO). &nbsp; The scale is used to help people protect their skin from sun &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2017\/04\/21\/canadian-scientists-developed-the-uv-index-celebrate-earth-day-and-science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}