Emerging Topics in Light Pollution
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 3593
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our home planet is currently facing many environmental challenges, presenting a continuously increasing urgency to deal with upcoming problems. Over the past decades, the misuse of artificial light at night (ALAN) has resulted in some sort of pollution, growing in its exigency of multidisciplinary facets—light pollution. As studied in many previous research works, the displacement of the natural dark night has severe negative repercussions on nearly all organisms inhabiting Earth. Particularly worthy of emphasis are the impacts on wildlife, plants, and even human health. Being a symbol for anthropogenic activities around most notable urban areas, light propagation in our atmosphere causes ALAN to cover large distances and intrude into otherwise dark areas of potentially great nocturnal biodiversity.
However, it is the volatile state of Earth’s atmosphere which defines the present state of light pollution. With varying meteorological conditions and atmospheric particles constantly changing in types, density, shapes, sizes, etc., the spatial and temporal distribution of light pollution is alterable, potentially from night to night. In this context, through long-term observations and remote sensing approaches aiming to investigate the development of the phenomenon, we experience innumerable disparate atmospheric conditions influencing collected data. However, it can be summarized that all in situ measurements are affected. Results are differences in the emission shape of lit areas, the city emission function, and in the extent of spread and attenuation of light in the atmosphere.
This Special Issue targets emerging topics in light pollution. While, in general, all submissions regarding light pollution and light scattering are welcome, special focus will be given to:
- The measurement and analysis techniques of light pollution observations;
- The quantification of the long-term development of light pollution;
- Monitoring and remote sensing approaches of light pollution;
- The relation between light pollution and air pollution/quality;
- Light propagation and scattering due to varying atmospheric parameters;
- Radiation transfer in Earth’s atmosphere related to light pollution;
- Impacts of city emission function with varying atmospheric parameters;
- Modelling light pollution and atmospheric parameters;
- Uniting measurements and modelling for light pollution analyses;
- The usage of new tools and techniques for light pollution observations.
It is an honour to serve as guest editor for this Special Issue and I am looking forward to all submissions.
Dr. Stefan Wallner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- light pollution
- artificial light at night
- environmental monitoring
- atmospheric optics
- light scattering
- measurements
- modelling
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