RT Journal Article
T1 Light pollution and the concentration of anthropogenic photons in the terrestrial atmosphere
A1 Bará Viñas, Salvador
A1 Bao Varela, María del Carmen
A1 Falchi, Fabio
K1 Light pollution
K1 Nocturnal environment
K1 Radiometry
K1 Photometry
K1 Air pollution
AB Light pollution can be rigorously described in terms of the volume concentration of anthropogenic photons (light quanta) in the terrestrial atmosphere. This formulation, consistent with the basic physics of the emission, scattering and absorption of light, allows one to express light pollution levels in terms of particle volume concentrations, in a completely analogous way as it is currently done with other classical pollutants, like particulate matter or molecular contaminants. In this work we provide the explicit conversion equations between the photon volume concentration and the traditional light photometry quantities. This equivalent description of the light pollution levels provides some relevant insights that help to identify artificial light at night as a standard pollutant. It also enables a complementary way of expressing artificial light exposures for environmental and public health research and regulatory purposes.
PB Elsevier
YR 2022
FD 2022-08-24
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44396
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44396
LA eng
NO Bará, S., Bao-Varela, C., & Falchi, F. (2022). Light pollution and the concentration of anthropogenic photons in the terrestrial atmosphere. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 13(9), 101541. doi:10.1016/j.apr.2022.101541
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026