Could Vikings have navigated under foggy and cloudy conditions by skylight polarization? On the atmospheric optical prerequisites of polarimetric Viking navigation under foggy and cloudy skies

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2080, 2007, Pages 1081-1095

  Hegedüs, Ramón ^a   Åkesson, Susanne ^b   Wehner, Rüdiger ^c   Horváth, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arctic skies; Cloud; Fog; Polarimetric Viking navigation; Sky polarization; Vikings

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948984647     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1811     Document Type: Article

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