daily_uve: Daily erythemal UV

In UVdose: Estimate Ambient UV Dose from Location and Date Info

Daily erythemal UV

Description

This function extracts total daily ambient erythemal UV dose on a particular date, at a given geographical location (longitude and latitude).

Usage

daily_uve(
  data,
  date,
  longitude,
  latitude,
  temis_path = getwd(),
  region = "europe"
)

Arguments

data	data frame containing sample IDs, date, longitude, and latitude
date	A date vector, usually date of assessment or recruitment.
longitude	A numeric vector of longitude values.
latitude	A numeric vector of latitude values.
temis_path	Path to TEMIS UV files downloaded using temis_uvdec. Default is current directory.
region	Region of TEMIS data required, options are "europe" (default) or "world".

Value

A numeric vector of ambient daily erythemal UV measurements.

Examples

#uses sample TEMIS file
mysample <- data.frame(id = c("id000016"),
        date = as.Date(c("2010-08-04")),
        longitude = c(-2.10),
        latitude = c(50.5))
uve_example <- system.file("extdata", "uve_example", package="UVdose")
daily_uve(mysample, date, longitude, latitude, temis_path = uve_example)

UVdose documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 7:38 p.m.