Quantifying the visual impact of wind farm lights on the nocturnal landscape

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 01 Dec 2024Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2023 Portugal English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, volume 329, page 109,203 (issn: 0022-4073,

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Authors: Bará, Salvador; Lima, Raul C;

doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109203 , 10.5281/zenodo.8415030 , 10.5281/zenodo.8415031 , 10.48550/arxiv.2310.05981

arXiv: 2310.05981

handle: 10400.22/26187

Quantifying the visual impact of wind farm lights on the nocturnal landscape

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Abstract

In this work we present a simple model for quantifying the visual impact of individual wind turbine lights, based on the comparison of their brightnesses with the brightness of well-known night sky objects

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Portugal

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Polytechnic Institute of Porto
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Keywords

Atmospheric extinction, Physics - Physics and Society, Nighstcape, FOS: Physical sciences, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), Environmental impacts assessment, Light pollution, Naked eye astronomy, Wind farms, Nocturnal landscape, Landscape, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Sky, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics - Optics, Optics (physics.optics)

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