Bishop's Rings and Cirrus Cloud Coronas: The Optics of Frozen Sulfuric Acid Particles

Kenneth Sassen; Th. Peter

doi:10.1364/LCOA.1993.ThC.3

Light and Color in the Open Air
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1993),
paper ThC.3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/LCOA.1993.ThC.3

Bishop's Rings and Cirrus Cloud Coronas: The Optics of Frozen Sulfuric Acid Particles

Kenneth Sassen and Th. Peter

Light and Color in the Open Air 1993

Wyoming United States
16–18 June 1993
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Abstract

The variety of optics displays that occurs in our atmosphere, which include bows, arcs, halos, and coronas, are reasonably well understood on the basis of the refraction, reflection and diffraction effects produced during the scattering of sunlight by various types of liquid or solid phase water particles.

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