photobiologyWavebands (version 0.4.1)

photobiologyWavebands-package: Waveband Definitions for 'UV', 'VIS', and 'IR' Radiation

Description

Constructors of waveband objects for commonly used biological spectral weighting functions ('BSWFs') and for different wavebands describing named ranges of wavelengths in the ultraviolet ('UV'), visible ('VIS') and infrared ('IR') regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Details

This package provides constructors for objects of class waveband from package 'photobiology'. These contructors are based on standard definitions and frequently used non-standardized definitions. When different definitions are in common use for a given named waveband the contructors accept an argument to chose among them.

By necesity we cover only a subset of all definitions in use. These should be thought as convenience functions, as waveband objects according to any arbitrary definition can be constructed with the functions provided by package photobiology-package

References

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Examples

q_irrad(sun.spct, PAR())  # PAR photon irradiance
q_irrad(sun.spct, Blue("ISO")) # blue photon irradiance, ISO definition
q_irrad(sun.spct, Blue("Sellaro")) # blue photon irradiance, Sellaro et al.'s definition
e_irrad(sun.spct, VIS()) # VIS irradiance, ISO definition
q_irrad(sun.spct, VIS()) # VIS photon, ISO definition