Why can supernumerary bows be seen in a rainshower?

Alistair B. Fraser

doi:10.1364/MO.1983.ThB4

Topical Meeting on Meteorological Optics
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1983),
paper ThB4
•https://doi.org/10.1364/MO.1983.ThB4

Why can supernumerary bows be seen in a rainshower?

Alistair B. Fraser

Meteorological Optics 1983

Incline Village, Nevada United States
12–14 January 1983
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Abstract

Although the spectra of drop radii in rainshowers are very broad, the supernumerary bows are caused by only those drops with radii of about one-fourth millimeter.

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