Unusual glories

Hinz, Claudia; Können, G. P.

doi:10.1002/wea.311

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“…Regarding the spot, as before, as consisting of a bunch of intersecting subparhelic circle fragments coming from all directions implies its polarization to be in the plane of scattering. The inner part of the glory, on the other hand, is polarized in the reverse direction [5,8]. Therefore, if one views through a polarizer a glory whose central point is a hot spot, the center will become elongated and will point in the direction where the dark areas in the glory appear [5,8].…”

Section: Identifying the Spot In Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The inner part of the glory, on the other hand, is polarized in the reverse direction [5,8]. Therefore, if one views through a polarizer a glory whose central point is a hot spot, the center will become elongated and will point in the direction where the dark areas in the glory appear [5,8]. However, it should be noted that the observation is not so easy because of the polarization-disturbing properties of aircraft windows Fig.…”

Section: Identifying the Spot In Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Antisolar halospot

Können¹,

Bodó²,

Kiricsi

2008

Appl. Opt.

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An isolated colorless spot of 1 degrees diameter located at the antisolar point was observed from a plane on the clouds beneath it. The spot can be explained by light scattering on randomly oriented ice crystals via light paths similar to those responsible for the subparhelic circle. Its peculiar polarization properties potentially permit its detection in cases where the spot is embedded in a glory.

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