Polarization structures in parhelic circles and in 120° parhelia

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1457-1464

  Können, Günther P ^a   Tinbergen, Jaap ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE CRYSTAL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; POLARIZATION;

EID: 0032549837     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.001457     Document Type: Article

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