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Quantifying the visual impact of wind farm lights on the nocturnal landscape
| dc.contributor.author | Bará, Salvador | |
| dc.contributor.author | C. Lima, Raúl | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-03T11:56:41Z | |
| dc.date.embargo | 2026-09-25 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-09-27 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Wind farm lights are a conspicuous feature in the nocturnal landscape. Their presence is a source of light pollution for residents and the environment, severely disrupting in some places the aesthetic, cultural, and scientific values of the pristine starry skies. In this work we present a simple model for quantifying the visual impact of individual wind turbine lights, based on the comparison of their brightness with the brightness of well- known night sky objects. The model includes atmospheric and visual variables, and for typical parameters it shows that medium-intensity turbine lights can be brighter than Venus up to ~4 km from the turbine, brighter than CMa (the brightest star on the nighttime sky) until about ~10 km, and reach the standard stellar visibility limit for the unaided eye (m v =+6.00) at ~38 km. These results suggest that the visual range of wind farms at nighttime may be significantly larger than at daytime, a factor that should be taken into account in environmental impact assessments. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bará, S., & C․ Lima, R. (2024). Quantifying the visual impact of wind farm lights on the nocturnal landscape. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 329, 109203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109203 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109203 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1879-1352 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0022-4073 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/26187 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | pt_PT |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022407324003108 | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Light pollution | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Wind farms | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Nocturnal landscape | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Environmental impacts assessment | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Naked eye astronomy | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Atmospheric extinction | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Quantifying the visual impact of wind farm lights on the nocturnal landscape | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 9 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 1 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 329 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Lima | |
| person.givenName | Raul | |
| person.identifier | R-000-Q5J | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | FD1B-60AD-BD2A | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-7212-510X | |
| person.identifier.rid | I-3577-2013 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 57188653495 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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