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Overview"Most naturally occurring optical displays can be seen from an airplane, and some are best viewed while airborne. This book is an introduction to optical phenomena in the natural world, primarily in the atmosphere (or """"in the air""""). It follows a simple approach that can be understood and enjoyed by readers without scientific training. A variety of optical phenomena are illustrated with photographs and explained with simplified line diagrams and descriptions. These phenomena range from everyday sky and sunset colors to the elusive noctilucent clouds and aurora, as well as a whole world of too-often-ignored occurrences such as sun glitter patterns on bodies of water, colorful ringed glories and coronas, rainbows that cling to the clouds below a high-flying airplane, and ice halos that spring up as an airplane passes through high-altitude ice clouds." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph A. ShawPublisher: SPIE Press Imprint: SPIE Press Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9781510607293ISBN 10: 1510607293 Pages: 194 Publication Date: 30 March 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents1 Introduction 1.1 Purpose and Scope 1.2 Observation and Photography Tips 1.2.1 Where and when to look 1.2.2 Photography tips 1.2.3 Airplane-window optical effects 1.3 Organization of the Book References 2 Sky Colors 2.1 Clear Sky Colors 2.2 Sunrise and Sunset Colors 2.3 Scattering by Smoke and Air Pollution 2.4 Skylight Angular Distribution 2.5 The Green Flash 2.6 Mie Scattering from Rain Drops and Cloud Droplets References 3 Coronas and Iridescence 3.1 Corona 3.2 Iridescence References 4 Rainbows and Cloudbows 4.1 Rainbow Colors and Geometry 4.2 Cloudbows and Fogbows 4.3 Rainbow and Cloudbow Polarization 4.4 Supernumerary Bows 4.5 Red and Infrared Rainbows References 5 Glories 5.1 Glory Geometry 5.2 Glories and Airplane Shadow 5.3 Noncircular Glories 5.4 Opposition Effect and Heiligenschein References 6 Shadows 6.1 Eclipses 6.2 Airplane Shadows 6.3 Mountain Shadows 6.4 Contrail Shadows 6.5 Cloud Shadows 6.6 Crepuscular and Anti-crepuscular Rays 6.7 Earth's Shadow References 7 Water Colors and Glitter 7.1 Water Colors 7.2 Water Waves 7.3 Water Reflections 7.4 Glints and Glitter References 8 Halos and Pillars 8.1 Refraction in Ice Crystals 8.1.1 Sundogs or parhelia 8.1.2 22-deg halo 8.1.3 Upper and lower tangent arcs 8.2 Reflections from Ice Crystals 8.3 Other Ice Crystal Optical Effects 8.3.1 Subparhelia 8.3.2 Refraction in 90-deg prism ice crystals 8.3.3 Bottlinger's rings References 9 Noctilucent Clouds and Aurora 9.1 Midnight Sun 9.2 Noctilucent Clouds 9.3 Aurora References 10 Colors from Polarization 10.1 Skylight Polarization 10.2 Colors from Birefringent Airplane Windows References 11 Scenery and Interesting Sights Appendix: International Airport CodesReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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