Atmospheric optics
The Atmospheric Optics is a part of the optics and deals interdisciplinary - along with the Meteorology - with optical phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere .
The interest in these phenomena consists on the one hand in the elucidation of the causes of these sometimes quite impressive phenomena and on the other hand in the possibility of drawing conclusions about certain weather conditions and atmospheric stratifications.
Examples are:
- blue sky light , shadow
- Morning and evening glow ( twilight )
- Rainbow , fog bow , dove bow , moon rainbow
- Brocken ghost
- Luminous night clouds
- Green flash
- Purple light
- Alpenglow
- Halo phenomena such as 22 ° halo, secondary suns , secondary moons , light column , circumzenital arc, etc.
- Tufts of light
- Weather lights
- Aurora borealis
- Colored shadows
- Mirage
- Air shimmer
- Airglow
The iridium flare, on the other hand, is a light reflex caused by the reflection of sunlight on satellite antennas outside the earth's atmosphere. The zodiacal light also has its origin outside the earth's atmosphere and is therefore not part of atmospheric optics.
See also
literature
- Michael Vollmer: Play of light in the air - atmospheric optics for beginners. Elsevier, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8274-1361-3 .
- Craig F. Bohren, et al .: Fundamentals of atmospheric radiation. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-527-40503-9 .
- Larry C. Andrews: Field guide to atmospheric optics. SPIE Press, Bellingham 2004, ISBN 0-8194-5318-8 .
- Robert Greenler: Rainbows, halos and glories. Cambridge University Press 1980
- David K. Lynch, et al .: Color and light in nature. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-43431-9 .
- Marcel Minnaert : Light and Color in the Outdoors . Springer, New York 1993, ISBN 0-387-97935-2
Web links
Commons : Atmospheric optics - album with pictures, videos and audio files
