Artificial circumzenithal and circumhorizontal arcs
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
2017-08-02 v1 Optics
Abstract
We revisit a water glass experiment often used to demonstrate a rainbow. On a closer look, it also turns out to be a rather close analogy of a different kind of atmospheric optics phenomenon altogether: The geometry may be used to faithfully reproduce the circumzenithal and the circumhorizontal halos, providing a missing practical demonstration experiment for those beautiful and common natural ice halo displays.
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@article{arxiv.1608.08664,
title = {Artificial circumzenithal and circumhorizontal arcs},
author = {Markus Selmke and Sarah Selmke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08664},
year = {2017}
}
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7 pages, 7 figures