Simulating halos and coronas in their atmospheric environment.

Autor: David Gedzelman S; Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and NOAA CREST Center, City College of New York New York, New York 10031, USA. stan@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Applied optics [Appl Opt] 2008 Dec 01; Vol. 47 (34), pp. H157-66.
DOI: 10.1364/ao.47.00h157
Abstrakt: 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 0.0003
Databáze: MEDLINE