Refractive bending and delay through the Earth’s atmosphere at both radio/millimetric and optical/IR wavelengths are discussed, but with most emphasis on the former, and with Atacama Large Millimeter ...

Rainbows Rainbows are one of nature's most enchanting spectacles, forming beautiful arcs of color in the sky. They occur when ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - To create atmospheric optics we need two things: ice crystals in the air and a light source. All ...

For ground-based telescopes, atmospheric refraction is also an important factor, since it results in a smearing of the point-spread function (PSF), that can no longer be efficiently suppressed by the ...

The key factor believed to underlie climate change is increased temperature, resulting from increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (i.e., the “greenhouse effect”; IPCC 2007 ...