{"id":1787607,"date":"2019-08-15T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787607"},"modified":"2019-08-15T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:00:16","slug":"map-of-uv-exposure-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/map-of-uv-exposure-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of UV Exposure in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1787608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1787608\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/145413\/new-map-shows-risk-of-sunburn-across-the-us\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1787608\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/map-of-uv-exposure-in-the-united-states\/nasa-eo-sunburn\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/nasa-eo-sunburn.gif\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nasa-eo-sunburn\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/nasa-eo-sunburn-300x200.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/nasa-eo-sunburn.gif\" class=\"wp-image-1787608 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/nasa-eo-sunburn.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1787608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA Earth Observatory (Joshua Stevens)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/145413\/new-map-shows-risk-of-sunburn-across-the-us\">NASA Earth Observatory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/appliedsciences.nasa.gov\/\">Applied Sciences Program<\/a> has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envpol.2019.06.074\">first publicly available map<\/a> of ultraviolet (UV) radiation for all counties in the contiguous United States. The dataset, which spans 2005-2015, is available on the CDC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ephtracking.cdc.gov\/DataExplorer\/#\/\">National Environmental Public Health Tracking network<\/a>, which delivers information and data about health issues related to environmental factors. Public health officials, city planners, or individuals concerned about Sun exposure can learn how much ultraviolet radiation is falling over each county each month, which is an important step in helping reduce skin cancer risks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The animated map above shows the monthly average UV dose in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Earth Observatory: The NASA Applied Sciences Program has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create the first publicly available map of ultraviolet (UV) radiation for all counties in the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/map-of-uv-exposure-in-the-united-states\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[457,12,1369,1368,158],"class_list":["post-1787607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-cdc","tag-nasa","tag-sunburn","tag-ultraviolet","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1229478,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/hot-and-cold\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787607,"position":0},"title":"Hot and Cold","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 January 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The deep freeze is unevenly distributed. NASA Earth Observatory published this temperature anomaly map based on data from the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. A temperature anomaly map shows how much warmer or colder temperatures are versus the average\u2014in this case, land surface temperatures from 26 December 2017 to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/temp-anomaly-na.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/temp-anomaly-na.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/temp-anomaly-na.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/temp-anomaly-na.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1789125,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/08\/drought-affects-one-third-of-the-united-states\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787607,"position":1},"title":"Drought Affects One-Third of the United States","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 August 2020","format":"image","excerpt":"One-third of the United States is currently affected by at least moderate levels of drought, NASA Earth Observatory reports. 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