photobiology (version 0.11.3)

split_irradiance: Energy or photon irradiance for split spectrum regions

Description

This function returns the energy or photon irradiance for a series of contiguous wavebands from a radiation spectrum. The returned values can be either absolute or relative to their sum.

Usage

split_irradiance(
  w.length,
  s.irrad,
  cut.w.length = range(w.length),
  unit.out = getOption("photobiology.base.unit", default = "energy"),
  unit.in = "energy",
  scale = "absolute",
  check.spectrum = TRUE,
  use.cached.mult = FALSE,
  use.hinges = getOption("photobiology.use.hinges", default = NULL)
)

Value

A numeric vector of irradiances with no change in scale factor if

scale == "absolute", [\(W\,m^{-2}\)] or [\(mol\,s^{-1}\,sm^{-2}\)] depending on the argument passed to unit.out or relative values (as fraction of one if scale == "relative" or percentages if scale == "percent" of photons or energy depending on the argument passed to unit.out.

Arguments

w.length

numeric Vector of wavelengths [\(nm\)].

s.irrad

numeric vector of spectral irradiances in [\(W\,m^{-2}\,nm^{-1}\)] or [\(mol\,s^{-1}\,sm^{-2}\,nm^{-1}\)] as indicated by the argument pased to unit.in.

cut.w.length

numeric Vector of wavelengths [\(nm\)].

unit.out, unit.in

character Allowed values "energy", and "photon", or its alias "quantum".

scale

a character A string indicating the scale used for the returned values ("absolute", "relative" or "percent").

check.spectrum

logical Flag indicating whether to sanity check input data, default is TRUE.

use.cached.mult

logical Flag indicating whether multiplier values should be cached between calls.

use.hinges

logical Flag indicating whether to insert "hinges" into the spectral data before integration so as to reduce interpolation errors at the boundaries of the wavebands.

Examples

with(sun.data,
      split_irradiance(w.length, s.e.irrad,
                       cut.w.length = c(300, 400, 500, 600, 700),
                       unit.out = "photon"))