The Toboggan Sun

Special variants of the Novaya Zemlya effect may arise from localized temperature inversions that follow the height profile of hills or mountains. Rather than following its natural path, the rising or setting Sun may, under such circumstances, appear to slide along a distant mountain slope. We found...

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Main Authors: Davidson, WPS, van der Werf, SY
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2005
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Novaya Zemlya
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spelling ftunigroningenpu:oai:pure.rug.nl:publications/712edf19-a239-4c88-800a-a8e3316de5f3 2024-06-02T08:12:22+00:00 The Toboggan Sun Davidson, WPS van der Werf, SY 2005-09-20 https://hdl.handle.net/11370/712edf19-a239-4c88-800a-a8e3316de5f3 https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/712edf19-a239-4c88-800a-a8e3316de5f3 eng eng https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/712edf19-a239-4c88-800a-a8e3316de5f3 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Davidson , WPS & van der Werf , SY 2005 , ' The Toboggan Sun ' , Applied Optics , vol. 44 , no. 27 , pp. 5644-5651 . article 2005 ftunigroningenpu 2024-05-07T17:52:49Z Special variants of the Novaya Zemlya effect may arise from localized temperature inversions that follow the height profile of hills or mountains. Rather than following its natural path, the rising or setting Sun may, under such circumstances, appear to slide along a distant mountain slope. We found early observations of this effect in the literature by Willem Barents (1597) and by Captain Scott and H. G. Ponting (1911). We show recent photographic material of the effect and present ray-tracing calculations to explain its essentials. (c) 2005 Optical Society of America. Article in Journal/Newspaper Novaya Zemlya University of Groningen research database
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description Special variants of the Novaya Zemlya effect may arise from localized temperature inversions that follow the height profile of hills or mountains. Rather than following its natural path, the rising or setting Sun may, under such circumstances, appear to slide along a distant mountain slope. We found early observations of this effect in the literature by Willem Barents (1597) and by Captain Scott and H. G. Ponting (1911). We show recent photographic material of the effect and present ray-tracing calculations to explain its essentials. (c) 2005 Optical Society of America.
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