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PerformanceImprovement Council
PerformanceImprovement Council
POWER OF STORYCompelling Data + Story + TellingEvery presenter has the potential to be great; every presentation is high stakes; and every audience deserves the absolute best.
What makes a community meaningfully similar or different is not just its landscape, but also its people.
The Solution: Combine daytime and nighttime measurements…
…with well-established physical principles.
less equal more
Holiday Lighting
Richmond
Portsmouth
RaleighGreensboro
Charlotte
Greenville
Baltimore – WashingtonMetro Area
Carolina
Ponce
CaguasGuaynabo
AreciboToa Baja MayagüezTrujillo Alto
Toa AltaAguadillaVega BajaHumacao
Río GrandeCabo Rojo
Naranjito Cayey CanóvanasIsabela
Aguas Buenas
San Juan
Bayamón
ManatíCidra
San SebastiánYaucoAguadaHatillo
San LorenzoBarranquitas0.0E+00
1.0E+03
2.0E+03
3.0E+03
4.0E+03
5.0E+03
6.0E+03
20,000 200,000
Hol
iday
Lig
htin
g D
eman
d (M
W p
er h
our)
Population (US Census, 2010)
More
Nig
htt
ime L
igh
ts
More People
Holiday Season in Puerto Rico
Magnitude of lighting demand
Large-to-Medium sized cities
Small towns
Carolina
Ponce
Caguas
Guaynabo
Arecibo
Toa Baja
Mayagüez
Trujillo Alto
Toa Alta
AguadillaVega Baja
Humacao
Río GrandeCabo Rojo
Naranjito
Cayey
Canóvanas
IsabelaAguas Buenas
San Juan
Bayamón
Manatí
Cidra
San Sebastián
Yauco
Aguada
Hatillo
San Lorenzo
Barranquitas
1.20
1.25
1.30
1.35
1.40
20,000 200,000
Hol
iday
incr
ease
in L
ight
Out
put
(%)
Population (US Census, 2010)
Large suburbs & exurban areas
Central urban districts
Cultural Centers
Magnitude of holiday lighting demandM
ore
Ch
ristm
as L
igh
ts
More People
Holiday Season in Puerto Rico
Countryside towns
+ Innovative research that made ours possible:
• Miller and Turner (2009), A Dynamic Lunar Spectral Irradiance Data Set for VIIRS DNB Nighttime Environmental Applications, IEEE-TGRS.
• Zhang et al., (2013), The Vegetation Adjusted NTL Urban Index: A new approach to reduce saturation and increase variation in nighttime luminosity, RSE.
• Johnson, et al., (2013), Preliminary investigations toward nighttime aerosol optical depth retrievals from the VIIRS DNB, AMTD.
• Walther, et al., (2013), The Expected Performance of Cloud Optical and Microphysical Properties derived from Suomi NPP VIIRS DNB Lunar Reflectance, JGR-Atmospheres.
• Cao and Bai (2014), Quantitative Analysis of VIIRS DNB Nightlight Point Source for Light Power Estimation and Stability Monitoring, Remote Sensing.
Thanks to NASA’s SIF Fund. For more info:
• Román and Stokes (2015). Holidays in lights: Tracking cultural patterns in demand for energy services. AGU Earth's Future Journal [Accepted].