The effect of spatial and spectral heterogeneity of ground-based light sources on night-sky radiances

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 409, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1203-1212

  Kocifaj, M ^a   Aube M ^b   Kohut I ^c  

^a ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c Geophysical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric effects; Light pollution; Methods: numerical; Scattering

Indexed keywords

LUMINANCE; NUMERICAL METHODS; OBSERVATORIES; PHOTOMETRY; POLLUTION;

% REDUCTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; GROUND BASED; LIGHT POLLUTION; METHOD: NUMERICAL; NIGHT LIGHTS; POWER; SKY LUMINANCE; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPECTRAL HETEROGENEITY;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 78649722010     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17385.x     Document Type: Article

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