Simulating coronas in color

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 497-504

  Gedzelman, Stanley D ^a   Lock, James A ^b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

CORONAS;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 0037455478     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.000497     Document Type: Article

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