Halo arcs from airborne, pyramidal ice crystals falling with their c axes in vertical orientation

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1435-1440

  Pekkola, Marko ^a   Riikonen, Marko ^a   Moilanen, Jarmo ^a   Ruoskanen, Jukka ^a  

^a Tahtitieteellinen yhdistys Ursa ry   (Finland)

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ICE CRYSTAL; OPTICAL PROPERTY;

EID: 0032549846     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.001435     Document Type: Article

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