Contributions of artificial lighting sources on light pollution in Hong Kong measured through a night sky brightness monitoring network

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 139, Issue , 2014, Pages 90-108

  Pun, Chun Shing Jason ^a   So, Chu Wing ^a   Leung, Wai Yan ^a   Wong, Chung Fai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Light pollution; Moon radiation; Night sky brightness; Skyglow; Urban lighting

Indexed keywords

LIGHTING; LUMINANCE; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS; LIGHT POLLUTION; MONITORING NETWORK; MONITORING STATIONS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; SKYGLOW;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; LIGHT POLLUTION; MOON; NIGHTGLOW; RURAL ATMOSPHERE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84896545726     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2013.12.014     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Pun C.S.J., So C.W. Night-sky brightness monitoring in Hong Kong-a city-wide light pollution assessment. Environ Monit Assess 2012, 184:2537-2557. 10.1007/s10661-011-2136-1.
2. Smith F. Report and recommendations of IAU Commission 50. In: Trans. Int. Astron. Union (Reports on Astronomy) XVIIA; 1979, p. 218-22.
3. Smith M. Time to turn off the lights. Nature 2009, 457:27.
4. Starlight: a common heritage. Marín C, Jafari J, editors. In: Proceedings of the international conference in defence of the quality of the night sky and the right to observe the stars. International initiative in defence of the quality of the night sky and the right to observe the stars; 2007.
5. Benn C.R., Ellison S.L. Brightness of the night sky over La Palma. New Astron Rev 1998, 42:503-507.
6. Kyba C.C.M., Wagner J.M., Kuechly H.U., Walker C.E., Elvidge C.D., Falchi F., et al. Citizen science provides valuable data for monitoring global night sky luminance. Sci Rep 2013, 3:1835. 10.1038/srep01835.
7. Small C., Elvidge C.D. Night on Earth. mapping decadal changes of anthropogenic night light in Asia. Int J Appl Earth Obs Geoinf 2013, 22:40-52.
8. Cinzano P., Elvidge C.D. Night sky brightness at sites from DMSP-OLS satellite measurements. Mon Not R Astron Soc 2004, 353:1107-1116.
9. Cinzano P., Falchi F., Elvidge C.D. The first world atlas of the artificial night sky brightness. Mon Not R Astron Soc 2001, 328:689-707.
10. Liu Q, Sutton PC, Elvidge CD. Relationships between nighttime imagery and population density for Hong Kong. In: Proceedings of the 31st meeting of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network; 2011.
11. Pedani M. Sky surface brightness at Mount Graham. UBVRI science observations with the Large Binocular Telescope. Publ Astron Soc Pac 2009, 121:778-786.
12. Stalin C.S., Hegde M., Sahu D.K., Parihar P.S., Anupama G.C., Bhatt B.C., et al. Night sky at the Indian Astronomical Observatory during 2000-2008. Bull Astron Soc India 2008, 36:111-127.
13. Patat F. The dancing sky. 6 years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal. Astron Astrophys 2008, 481:575-591.
14. Sanchez S., Aceituno J., Thiele U., Perez-Ramirez D., Alves J. The night sky at the Calar Alto Observatory. Publ Astron Soc Pac 2007, 119:1186-1200.
15. Krisciunas K., Semler D.R., Richards J., Schwarz H.E., Suntzeff N.B., Vera S., et al. Optical sky brightness at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory from 1992 to 2006. Publ Astron Soc Pac 2007, 119:687-696.
16. Taylor V.A., Jansen R.A., Windhorst R.A. Observing conditions at Mount Graham. Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope UBVR sky surface brightness and seeing measurements from 1999 through 2003. Publ Astron Soc Pac 2004, 116:762-777.
17. Liu Y., Zhou X., Sun W.L., Ma J., Wu H., Jiang Z., et al. Astronomical observing conditions at the Xinglong Station in 1995-2001. Publ Astron Soc Pac 2003, 115:495-501.
18. Census and Statistics Department, Population - Overview - Latest Statistics, , June 2013. http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/so20.jsp.
19. Cinzano P. Night Sky Photometry with Sky Quality Meter, http://unihedron.com/projects/darksky/sqmreport_v1p4.pdfhttp://unihedron.com/projects/darksky/sqmreport_v1p4.pdf, June 2013.
20. Cinzano P. Report on Sky Quality Meter, version L. http://unihedron.com/projects/sqm-l/sqmreport2.pdfhttp://unihedron.com/projects/sqm-l/sqmreport2.pdf, July 2013.
21. Schnitt S., Ruhtz T., Fischer J., Hölker F., C.M.C. Temperature stability of the Sky Quality Meter. Sensors 2013, 13:12147-12166.
22. Hong Kong Observatory, Twilight, June 2011. http://www.weather.gov.hk/gts/astron2011/twilight_e.htm.
23. Patat F., Ugolnikov O., Postylyakov O. UBVRI twilight sky brightness at ESO-Paranal. Astron Astrophys 2006, 455:385-393.
24. Rozenberg G.V. Twilight. a study in atmospheric optics 1966, Plenum Press.
25. Hulburt E.O. Explanation of the brightness and color of the sky, particularly the twilight sky. J Opt Soc Am 1953, 43:113-118.
26. NASA, Javascript Lunar Eclipse Explorer, http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/JLEX/JLEX-index.htmlhttp://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/JLEX/JLEX-index.html, June 2013.
27. Sheen Y.-K., Byun Y.-I. The night sky spectrum of Mount Bohyun. J Korean Astron Soc 2004, 37:87-90.
28. Slanger T.G., Cosby P.C., Osterbrock D.E., Stone R.P.S., Misch A.A. The high resolution light polluted night sky spectrum at Mount Hamilton, California. Publ Astron Soc Pac 2003, 115:869-878.
29. Della Prugna F. Visual measurements and spectral survey of night sky brightness in Venezuela and Italy. Astron Astrophys 1999, 140:345-349.
30. Lane M.C., Garrison R.F. The night-sky spectrum of the city of Toronto. J R Astron Soc Can 1978, 72:198-205.
31. Duffett-Smith P. Practical astronomy with your calculator 1981, Cambridge University Press.
32. Krisciunas K., Schaefer B.E. A model of the brightness of moonlight. Publ Astron Soc Pac 1991, 103:1033-1039.
33. Bessell M.S. Standard photometric systems. Annu Rev Astron Astrophys 2005, 43:293-336.
34. Chau W. The University of Hong Kong: an observational and numerical study of pulsating variables. Report of PHYS 3531 Physics Project of Department of Physics; 2011.
35. Kyba C.C.M., Ruhtz T., Fischer J., Hölker F. Cloud coverage acts as an amplifier for ecological light pollution in urban ecosystems. PLoS ONE 2011, 6:e17307. 10.1371/journal.pone.0017307.
36. Puschnig J, Posch T, Uttenthaler S. Night sky photometry and spectroscopy performed at the Vienna University Observatory. J Quant Spectrosc Radiat Transf, this issue,. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2013.08.019.