Atmospheric light at solar noon across latitudes during the Polar Night.

(a) Northern Hemisphere of Earth, centered on the North Pole. Concentric circles represent the increasing extent of Polar Night as latitude increases; bands are based on the sun’s elevation relative to the horizon at solar noon on the winter solstice: civil twilight (0 to 6°), nautical twilight (6 t...

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Main Authors: Jonathan H. Cohen (7958483), Kim S. Last (11581392), Corie L. Charpentier (3200505), Finlo Cottier (749186), Malin Daase (471602), Laura Hobbs (9152223), Geir Johnsen (257802), Jørgen Berge (235355)
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Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001413.g001
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Summary:(a) Northern Hemisphere of Earth, centered on the North Pole. Concentric circles represent the increasing extent of Polar Night as latitude increases; bands are based on the sun’s elevation relative to the horizon at solar noon on the winter solstice: civil twilight (0 to 6°), nautical twilight (6 to 12°), and astronomical twilight (12 to 18°) (modified from [ 78 ]). (b) Svalbard archipelago, with locations of light measurements shown as stars, and locations of krill collection for physiological experiments ( Fig 3 , S2 Fig ) shown as open circles. Basemap for panel (a) is from Natural Earth Data using the combined datasets for Physical Vectors with Land ( https://naturalearth.s3.amazonaws.com/10m_physical/ne_10m_land.zip ) and Minor Islands ( https://naturalearth.s3.amazonaws.com/10m_physical/ne_10m_minor_islands.zip ). Basemap for panel (b) is from Geonorge using S100 Map data ( https://kartkatalog.geonorge.no/metadata/s100-map-data/bd6050e8-7182-459b-9989-66c4ecbae874 ). (c) Hyperspectral irradiance measured at sunset for a midlatitude location (38.7 o N at 21:54 GMT, upper panel) and 3 high-latitude locations around Svalbard in January (lower panel). For high-latitude spectra, diagnostic spectral bands from aurora borealis (391, 557, and 630 nm) and the research vessel’s SVLs are annotated. All-sky images taken at the time of spectrum acquisition are shown at right. Inset is irradiance integrated as photosynthetically active radiation (400 to 700nm, E PAR ). Black, red, and green colors represent 3 stations of increasing latitude (measured at times: 11:35, 11:11, and 11:50 GMT, respectively), which correspond to stars (panel b). For data, see S1 Data . SVL, sodium vapor lamp.