Publications related to Irradiance

Investigation of the effects of the Greek extreme wildfires of August 2021 on air quality and spectral solar irradiance

In August 2021, a historic heatwave was recorded in Greece which resulted in extreme wildfire events that strongly affected the air quality over the city of Athens. Saharan dust was also transferred over Greece on certain days of the same period due to the ...

Copernicus Publications2023

Validation of Spectral Simulation Tools for the Prediction of Indoor Daylight Exposure

Marilyne Andersen, Clotilde Marie A Pierson

A growing area of research focuses on the relationship between ocular light exposure and the non-visual responses. In order to accelerate research on this topic and improve building design, reliable spectral simulation tools are needed. This study aims at ...

2021

Validation of Spectral Simulation Tools for the Prediction of Indoor Electric Light Exposure

Marilyne Andersen, Clotilde Marie A Pierson, Myrta Gkaintatzi-Masouti

As the interest in design applications related to responses to light beyond vision is growing, two simulation tools, ALFA and Lark, have been developed to incorporate spectral characteristics of light in the evaluation of indoor lighting conditions. The sp ...

Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage2021

Visible light plays a significant role during bacterial inactivation by the photo-fenton process, even at sub-critical light intensities

César Pulgarin, Cristina del Socorro Lonfat, Stefanos Giannakis, Rosa Mosteo, David Muzard, Angelica Varon Lopez

The aim of this research is to clarify the contribution of sunlight wavelengths, irradiance and Fe2+/H2O2 during bacterial disinfection by the photo-Fenton process in clear surface waters. We considered different solar spectrum distributions (visible, UVA- ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Local estimation of the global horizontal irradiance using an all-sky camera

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari

Localised and high-frequency measurements of the global horizontal irradiance (GHI) are a key information to assess the level of power production of distributed photovoltaic generation. The paper presents a supervised machine learning-based procedure to es ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2018

An unsupervised method for estimating the global horizontal irradiance from photovoltaic power measurements

Lorenzo Nespoli, Vasco Medici

The precise calculation of solar irradiance is pivotal for forecasting the electric power generated by PV plants. However, on-ground measurements are expensive and are generally not performed for small and medium-sized PV plants. Satellite-based services r ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Design of a refractive surface

Mark Pauly, Yuliy Gennadievich Schwartzburg

Method of designing a refractive surface, comprising providing a refractive object having a refractive surface with an initial geometry, determining a refraction of incident illumination through the refractive surface with the initial geometry to create a ...

2017

Spin waves with large decay length and few 100 nm wavelengths in thin yttrium iron garnet grown at the wafer scale

Dirk Grundler

Using conventional coplanar waveguides (CPWs), we excited spin waves with a wavelength λ down to 310 nm in a 200 nm thin yttrium iron garnet film grown by liquid phase epitaxy. Spin-wave transmission was detected between CPWs that we separated by up to 2 m ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Sputtering-induced reemergence of the topological surface state in Bi2Se3

Jan Hugo Dil, Stefan Peter Muff, Thorsten Schmitt, Vladimir N. Strocov

We study the fate of the surface states of Bi2Se3 under disorder with strength larger than the bulk gap, caused by neon sputtering and nonmagnetic adsorbates. We find that neon sputtering introduces strong but dilute defects, which can be modeled by a unit ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Irradiance prediction intervals for PV stochastic generation in microgrid applications

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari

The increasing interest in integrating volatile resources into microgrids implies the necessity of quantifying the uncertainty of photovoltaic (PV) production using dedicated probabilistic forecast techniques. The work presents a novel method to construct ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Multilayer four-flux matrix model accounting for directional-diffuse light transfers

Roger Hersch, Mathieu Hébert

The four-flux model is a method to solve light radiative-transfer problems in planar, possibly multilayer structures. The light fluxes are modeled as two collimated and two diffuse beams propagating forward and backward perpendicularly to the layer stack. ...

Optical Soc Amer2016

Light trapping in hematite-coated transparent particles for solar fuel generation

Ali Dabirian

Hematite (alpha-Fe2O3), due to its abundance and low-cost, is an attractive compound for photoelectrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen. However, one major obstacle preventing hematite from achieving the target efficiencies comprises its signi ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Total light transmittance of GFRP laminates for building construction

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Carlos Pascual Agullo

The total light transmittance of hand lay-up glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) laminates for building construction was investigated for the purpose of two architectural applications: translucent load-bearing building envelopes and the encapsulation of ...

2014

Relevant impact of irradiance (vs. dose) and evolution of pH and mineral nitrogen compounds during natural water disinfection by photo-Fenton in a solar CPC reactor

César Pulgarin, Juliette Ndounla

The inactivation of total coliforms/E. coli (10(4) CFU/mL) and Salmonella spp. (10(5) CFU/mL) in well water naturally containing dissolved (Fe2+/3+) and solid iron forms (e.g. iron oxides) was carried out by photo Fenton treatment (Fe-2+,Fe-3+/H2O2/hv). In ...

Elsevier2014

The continuum intensity as a function of magnetic field II. Local magnetic flux and convective flows

Philipp Kobel

Context. To deepen our understanding of the role of small-scale magnetic fields in active regions (ARs) and in the quiet Sun (QS) on the solar irradiance, it is fundamental to investigate the physical processes underlying their continuum brightness. Previo ...

2012

A fast daylight model suitable for embedded controllers

David Lindelöf

This paper describes a fast daylight model suitable or embedded daylight controllers. For a given room geometry (including position and tilt of venetian blinds, and the sun's position), the indoor illuminances are modeled as a linear combination of outdoor ...

2009

Interaction between Light, Paper and Color Halftones: Challenges and Modelization Approaches

Roger Hersch, Mathieu Hébert

We review the phenomena having an impact on the interaction between light, paper and color halftones. They comprise surface reflections and refractions at the air-paper interface, propagation of light within the paper, internal reflections at the paper-air ...

IS&T2006