Shimmering snow

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As Flimmerschnee is called floating in the air, very small ice crystals that at temperatures below -12 ° C Resublimation of water vapor may arise. These ice crystals cause unusual light refraction and scattering effects. When the sun is in a favorable position, they can appear as a pillar of light floating in the air.

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literature

  • Editor of the Swiss Lexicon, Glacier Commission of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences (ed.): Glaciers, snow and ice. Verlag Schweizer Lexikon Mengis + Ziehr, Lucerne 1993, ISBN 3-9520144-2-7 , p. 19.
  • Gerhard Karl Lieb: Script for the lecture Snow and Avalanches in the 2001/2002 winter semester. University of Graz ( online ; PDF; 771 kB).