Atmospheric Phenomena

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A rainbow is a product of millions of falling raindrops interacting with sunlight. A single reflection form the primary bow, a double refle...

The photo features an array of anticrepuscular-rays as observed in Kämpfelbach near Karsruhe, Germany on July 31, 2010. I will never forge...

The photo showing a classic cloud-to-ground lightning strike and a cloud-to-cloud bolt as well was taken at Kämpfelbach near Karlsruhe (sout...

The photo above showing a sprightly dew bow was captured in a moist field crop at Kämpfelbach Germany on the night October 22, 2010. Since ...

This is an older observation (from last year). I made it at the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research on a mountaintop in central Ne...

While taking a walk through the surroundings of my home on February 20, 2010, I took the most of the nice weather by taking some last winter...

In the morning of April 11, Mt. Eyjafjallajökull , a volcano which is covered by a glacier, erupted in the southwest of Iceland. Its cloud o...

When I wanted to go to work in the morning of February 24, 2010, I noticed a colourful rainbow forming during a short local rainshower. At f...

Last Sunday, March 28, I went up on the Magdalena Mountains (in central New Mexico) to pick up two instruments from the laboratory there, an...