Overcast sky luminance is dependent on the physical state of the atmosphere below cloud level

Lighting Research and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-159

  Kocifaj, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; APPROXIMATE FORMULAS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; ENGINEERING PRACTICES; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; OVERCAST SKIES; SINGLE SCATTERING; SOURCE OF LIGHT;

LUMINANCE;

EID: 77953561029     PISSN: 14771535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477153509355507     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Kittler R., Valko P. Radiance distribution on densely overcast skies: Comparison with CIE luminance standard. Solar Energy 1993 ; 51: 349-355.
2. Commission Internationale de IEclairage. Natural Daylight, Official Recommendation. Compte Rendu CIE 13 Session 1955, 2, part 3.2, 2-4.
3. Lenoble J. Radiative transfer in scattering and absorbing atmospheres: standard computational procedures. Hampton: A. Deepak Publishing, 1985.
4. Minin IN Theory of radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres. Moscow: Nauka, 1988, (in Russian).
5. Lehar MA, Glicksman LR Rapid algorithm for modeling daylight distributions in office buildings. Building and Environment 2007 ; 42: 2908-2919.
6. Li DHW, Tsang EKW. An analysis of daylight performance for office buildings in Hong Kong. Building and Environment 2008 ; 43: 1446-1458.
7. Carter DJ The measured and predicted performance of passive solar light pipe system. Lighting Research and Technology 2002 ; 34: 39-52.
8. Kocifaj M., Darula S., Kittler R. HOLIGILM: Hollow light guide interior illumination method - An analytic calculation approach for cylindrical light-tubes. Solar Energy 2008 ; 82: 247-259.
9. Born M., Wolf E. Principles of optics: electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light, 7 th Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
10. Zuev VE, Krekov GM Optical models of the atmosphere. Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1986, (in Russian).
11. Davis JM An evaluation of the delta-Eddington contrast transmission model. Atmospheric Environment 1991 ; 25A: 1679-1687.
12. Kocifaj M. Optical air mass and refraction in a Rayleigh atmosphere. Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso 1996 ; 26: 23-30.
13. Thomas GE, Stamnes K. Radiative transfer in the atmosphere and ocean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
14. Gibson FW In situ photometric observations of angular scattering from atmospheric aerosols. Applied Optics 1976 ; 15: 2520-2533.
15. Yang S., Cotton WR, Jensen TL Feasibility of retrieving aerosol concentration in the atmospheric boundary layer using multiangle lidar returns and visual range. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 1997 ; 14: 1064-1078.
16. Horvath H., Alados Arboledas L., Olmo FJ, Jovanovi O., Gangl M., Kaller W., Sanchez C., Sauerzopf H., Seidl S. Optical characteristics of the aerosol in Spain and Austria and its effect on radiative forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research 2002 ; 107 (D19). AAC9.1 - AAC9.18.
17. van de Hulst HC Multiple light scattering. tables, formulas and applications. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, San Francisco: Academic Press, 1980.
18. Braak JC, de Haan JF, Van der Mee CVM, Hovenier JW, Travis LD Parameterized scattering matrices for small particles in planetary atmospheres. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 2001 ; 69: 585-604.
19. Toublanc D. Henyey-Greenstein and Mie phase functions in Monte Carlo radiative transfer computations. Applied Optics 1996 ; 35: 3270-3274.
20. Box MA, Deepak A. Retrieval of aerosol size distributions by inversion of simulated aureole data in the presence of multiple scattering. Applied Optics 1979 ; 18: 1376-1382.
21. Stramski D., Sedlák M. Application of dynamic light scattering to study of small marine particles. Applied Optics 1994 ; 33: 4825-4834.
22. Moon P., Spencer DE Illumination from a nonuniform sky. Illuminating Engineering 1942 ; 37: 707-726.
23. Muneer T. Evaluation of the CIE overcast sky model against Japanese data. Energy and Buildings 1998 ; 27: 175-177.
24. Brunger A., Hooper F. Anisotropic sky radiance model based on narrow field of view measurements of shortwave radiance. Solar Energy 1993 ; 51: 53-64.
25. Kokhanovsky AA Light scattering media optics. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004.
26. BenZvi SY, Connolly BM, Matthews JAJ, Prouza M., Visbal EF, Westerhoff S. Measurements of the aerosol phase function at the Pierre Auger Observatory. Astroparticle Physics 2007 ; 28: 312-320.
27. Pesic P. Estimating Avogadros number from skylight and airlight. European Journal of Physics 2005 ; 26: 183-187.
28. Tiwari YK, Devara PCS, Raj PE, Maheskumar RS, Pandithurai G., Dani KK Tropical urban aerosol distributions during pre-sunrise and post-sunset as observed with lidar and solar radiometer at Pune, India. Journal of Aerosol Science 2003 ; 34: 449-458.
29. Guyon P., Boucher O., Graham B., Beck J., Mayol-Bracero OL, Roberts GC, Maenhaut W., Artaxo P., Andreae MO Refractive index of aerosol particles over the Amazon tropical forest during LBA-EUSTACH 1999. Journal of Aerosol Science 2003 ; 34: 883-907.
30. Liu L., Mishchenko MI, Menon S., Macke A., Lacis AA The effect of black carbon on scattering and absorption of solar radiation by cloud droplets. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 2002 ; 74: 195-204.
31. Li DHW, Lau CCS, Lam JC Overcast sky conditions and luminance distribution in Hong Kong. Building and Environment 2004 ; 39: 101-108.
32. Soler A., Robledo L. Investigation of the overcast skies luminance distribution using 35 sensors fixed on a dome. Energy Conversion and Management 2005 ; 46: 2739-2747.
33. Commission Internationale de IEclairage. Spatial distribution of daylight - CIE standard general sky. CIE Publication S011/E:2003, Vienna: CIE, 2003.
34. International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Spatial distribution of daylight - CIE standard general sky. ISO Standard 15469:2004, Geneva: ISO, 2004.
35. Tregenza PR A simple mathematical model of illumination from a cloudy sky. Lighting Research and Technology 1980 ; 12: 121-128.