Light-pollution model for cloudy and cloudless night skies with ground-based light sources

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 3013-3022

  Kocifaj, Miroslav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LUMINANCE;

GROUND BASED LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT POLLUTION; SKY RADIANCE;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 34547282664     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003013     Document Type: Article

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