Simulating halos and coronas in their atmospheric environment
Applied Optics, Vol. 47, Issue 34, pp. H157-H166 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.47.00H157
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Abstract
Models are developed that simulate the light and color of the sky and of circular halos and coronas as a function of atmospheric pressure, cloud height, width, and optical depth, solar zenith angle, aerosol concentration and size, and ozone content. Halos, coronas, and skylight are treated as singly scattered sunbeams that are depleted in their passage through the atmosphere and cloud. Multiple scattering is included only for background cloud light. Halos produced by hexagonal crystal prisms and coronas produced by monodisperse droplets are visible for cloud optical depths in the range
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OCIS Codes
(010.1290) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric optics
(010.2940) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Ice crystal phenomena
(010.4950) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Ozone
(010.1615) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Clouds
(010.1690) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Color
(010.5620) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Radiative transfer
History
Original Manuscript: April 30, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: June 6, 2008
Published: October 1, 2008
Citation
Stanley David Gedzelman, "Simulating halos and coronas in their atmospheric environment," Appl. Opt. 47, H157-H166 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-47-34-H157
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