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| Desh Bandhu (D.B)
Gupta
Currently a NMT student and Petroleum Engineer from India | Debbie
Loftin
High School Science Teacher | Beckey
Raulie
Special Ed./Gifted Teacher Grades 7-12 | Dwight
Thompson
High School History/Supercomputing Challenge Teacher |
Problem Definition
Depletion of the Earth's ozone layer has become a significant environmental concern in the past 50 years due primarily to the production of new chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons and the increased rate of malignant melanoma, particularly in Austrailia. News reports in the southwesten United States often include a UV Index rating which is apparently related to the potential risk of harmful health effects of UV radiation. Sunscreen is a "hot" item and sunglasses now come with a UV rating. Most individuals take this information at face value and have never tried to understand how it is calculated. Although most people know the elevation of the city in which they are living and they take notice of cloud cover at different times of the day, they do not commonly equate this information with a need to alter their behaviors in relation to the incoming solar radiation. Therefore, we chose to create a simple program that would take this common knowledge and allow it to be input into a program that would give an accurate estimate of the incidence of UV radiation at the surface for their current location.
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