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Table 1 Characteristics of ambient, task, and combined lightings

From: Ambient-task combined lighting to regulate autonomic and psychomotor arousal levels without compromising subjective comfort to lighting

 

CCT, K

Illuminance, lx*

Irradiance mW/(m2nm)

Melanopsin-stimulating spectral component

Irradiance mW/(m2nm)

Relative content, %

Low-CCT ambient

4500

500

152

51

34

High-CCT ambient

12000

500

163

75

46

Task

5000

250

60

19

31

Low-low combined

4900

750

211

68

32

High-low combined

8250

750

223

93

42

  1. *Desk-top vertical illuminance.
  2. CCK = correlated color temperature.