Abstract

Light is characterized by three properties: intensity, color and polarization. In meteorological optics, the first two have been studied intensively, since the human eye is very sensitive to intensity and color. On the other hand, we can hardly distinguish between polarized and unpolarized light. Because of this "polarization blindness", people are less familiar with the polarization of atmospheric optical phenomena (ref. ¹,2).

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