Elliptical halos, Bottlinger’s rings, and the ice-plate snow-star transition

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 4871-4877

  Tränkle, Eberhard ^a   Riikonen, Marko ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Ursary   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Atmospheric optics; Computer simulations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ELLIPTICAL HALO; MODELLING;

EID: 0030322294     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.004871     Document Type: Article

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