Faceted snow crystals
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
- Vol. 4 (3) , 581-588
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.4.000581
Abstract
Colored halos are produced by refraction of light by solid hexagonal snow crystals with well-defined facets whose size is sufficiently large (>20 μm) to avoid significant diffraction effects. Large crystals fall with their major axes horizontal and oscillate by eddy shedding to give dogs and arcs. The formation of such crystals is strongly dependent on changing growth conditions, particularly ice supersaturation, air pressure, temperature, and the thermal radiation environment. Optimum meteorological conditions for formation of such crystals are suggested.Keywords
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