Links to atmospheric optics

• General
• Halos
• Upper atmosphere clouds
• Clouds
• Coronae, Rainbows
• Groups, organizations, magazines
• Miscellanous

These pages are maintained by:
Veikko Mäkelä, Veikko.Makela@ursa.fi

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General

• WW2010 Online Guides: Light and Optics Univeristy of Illinois
• Moon rings and Rainbows, Anita Carpenter, Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine
• Atmoshperic Optics by Les Cowley
• Optics of the Atmoshpere by Tomás Trzický
• Steve Albers' Weather Photographs by Steve Albers
• Magical Moments by Randy Wang, eg. atmospheric photos
• Atmospheric Optics Photography, by Harald Eden
• Atmosphärische Phänomene by Hans Schremmer; In German
• Gordo's Cape Town photo and weather home page, by Gordo Richardson
• Karl Kaiser's homepage, in German
• Mike's atmospheric photography by Michal Ellestad, USA

 

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Halos

• Finnish Halo Observers Network, Ursa Astronomical Association, Finland
• Arbeitskreis Meteoren, Sektion Halobeobachtung, Germany
• European halo project 1996-97
• Halo Guide by Jarmo Moilanen
• Halos by Reima Eresmaa
• Halos by Les Cowley
• Atmospheric ice halos by Bob Fosbury
• Halové jevy, by Tomáš Trzický; In Czech
• The Great South Pole halo display on January 11, 1999, USA Today

• Homepage of Marko Riikonen, includes also halos
• Art of the skies, halo photography by Leena Virta
• Gordo's gallery of halos by Gordo Richardson
• Atmospheric Halo Over Table Mountain by James W. Young

 

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Upper atmospheric clouds

• NLC homepage, Colorado University
• NLC observing homepage by Tom McEvan
• Gallery of Noctilucent Clouds by Timo Nousiainen
• Noctilucents Clouds - Frozen Flames of the Night Sky by Jani Helander
• Noctilucent Clouds by Timo Leponiemi
• NLC images from Kazakhstan by Victor Tejfel
• Observation of Noctilucent Clouds in Austria by Karl Kaiser

 

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Clouds

• Cloud Boutique, Plymouth State College
• Classification of Clouds, Texas A&M University

 

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Coronae, Rainbows

• Pollen Corona page by Jürgen Rendtel (German/English)

• Rainbow Lab (Mathematics of Rainbow) by Frederick J. Wicklin and Paul Edelman
• About Rainbows by Beverly T. Lynds
• Rainbows images and poetry by Randy Wang
• Cloudbows by Beverly L. Parks

 

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Groups, organizations, magazines

• OSA, Optical Society of America
• Atmospheric Optical Phenomena Section, Ursa Astronomical Association, Helsinki, Finland
• Finnish Halo Observers Network, Ursa Astronomical Association, Finland
• Arbeitskreis Meteoren, Sektion Halobeobachtung, Germany
• Vereniging voor Weerkunde & Klimatologie, Netherlands

• Applied Optics
• Nature
• Weather
• Weatherwise

 

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Miscellaneous

• Green flash simulation, By Dan Bruton
• Mirages in Finland, text and photos by Pekka Parviainen
• Andy T. Young's sunsets
• Snow Crystals by Kenneth G. Libbrecht