Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds

Ilan Koren; Alex Kostinski; Uri Wollner; Daria Dubrovin

doi:10.1038/s41612-022-00312-z

Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds

Ilan Koren, Alex Kostinski, Uri Wollner, Daria Dubrovin

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Weizmann Institute of Science

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Glory is a beautiful optical phenomenon observed in an atmosphere as concentric colored rings reflected by clouds or fog around an antisolar point. Here we report that true color glories, although faint, are discernible in raw unpolarized satellite images by a naked eye on a daily basis, thus constituting a large and untapped reservoir of cloud data for which a simple diffraction-like approximation links cloud droplet diameter and variance to the glory’s structure.

Original language	English
Article number	87
Journal	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00312-z
State	Published - Dec 2022

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Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Chemistry
Atmospheric Science

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