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The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness

Artificial lights raise night sky luminance, creating the most visible effect of light pollution—artificial skyglow. Despite the increasing interest among scientists in fields such as ecology, astronomy, health care, and land-use planning, light pollution lacks a current quantification of its magnit...

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Autores principales: Falchi, Fabio, Cinzano, Pierantonio, Duriscoe, Dan, Kyba, Christopher C. M., Elvidge, Christopher D., Baugh, Kimberly, Portnov, Boris A., Rybnikova, Nataliya A., Furgoni, Riccardo
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Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27386582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600377
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author Falchi, Fabio
Cinzano, Pierantonio
Duriscoe, Dan
Kyba, Christopher C. M.
Elvidge, Christopher D.
Baugh, Kimberly
Portnov, Boris A.
Rybnikova, Nataliya A.
Furgoni, Riccardo
author_facet Falchi, Fabio
Cinzano, Pierantonio
Duriscoe, Dan
Kyba, Christopher C. M.
Elvidge, Christopher D.
Baugh, Kimberly
Portnov, Boris A.
Rybnikova, Nataliya A.
Furgoni, Riccardo
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description Artificial lights raise night sky luminance, creating the most visible effect of light pollution—artificial skyglow. Despite the increasing interest among scientists in fields such as ecology, astronomy, health care, and land-use planning, light pollution lacks a current quantification of its magnitude on a global scale. To overcome this, we present the world atlas of artificial sky luminance, computed with our light pollution propagation software using new high-resolution satellite data and new precision sky brightness measurements. This atlas shows that more than 80% of the world and more than 99% of the U.S. and European populations live under light-polluted skies. The Milky Way is hidden from more than one-third of humanity, including 60% of Europeans and nearly 80% of North Americans. Moreover, 23% of the world’s land surfaces between 75°N and 60°S, 88% of Europe, and almost half of the United States experience light-polluted nights.
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spelling pubmed-49289452016-07-06 The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness Falchi, Fabio Cinzano, Pierantonio Duriscoe, Dan Kyba, Christopher C. M. Elvidge, Christopher D. Baugh, Kimberly Portnov, Boris A. Rybnikova, Nataliya A. Furgoni, Riccardo Sci Adv Research Articles Artificial lights raise night sky luminance, creating the most visible effect of light pollution—artificial skyglow. Despite the increasing interest among scientists in fields such as ecology, astronomy, health care, and land-use planning, light pollution lacks a current quantification of its magnitude on a global scale. To overcome this, we present the world atlas of artificial sky luminance, computed with our light pollution propagation software using new high-resolution satellite data and new precision sky brightness measurements. This atlas shows that more than 80% of the world and more than 99% of the U.S. and European populations live under light-polluted skies. The Milky Way is hidden from more than one-third of humanity, including 60% of Europeans and nearly 80% of North Americans. Moreover, 23% of the world’s land surfaces between 75°N and 60°S, 88% of Europe, and almost half of the United States experience light-polluted nights. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2016-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4928945/ /pubmed/27386582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600377 Text en Copyright © 2016, The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
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Falchi, Fabio
Cinzano, Pierantonio
Duriscoe, Dan
Kyba, Christopher C. M.
Elvidge, Christopher D.
Baugh, Kimberly
Portnov, Boris A.
Rybnikova, Nataliya A.
Furgoni, Riccardo
The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27386582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600377
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