Atmospheric Optics

• Kids and Teens: Science and Math: Science: The Earth: The Atmosphere: Optical Effects 

• Arbeitskreis Meteore  - Showcases observations of halos, auroras, noctilucent clouds, and meteors with explanations and hundreds of photographs.
• Atmospheric Optics  - Houses information about rays and shadows, water droplets, rainbows, ice halos, and high atmosphere. With links and resources.
• Bob Fosbury: Atmospheric ice halos  - Compares personal photographs of ice halos with computer model simulations to show the different arcs and bands.
• Finnish Halo Observing Network  - Details the hard core scientific research on halos on an amateur basis. With diagrams, drawings, and photographs.
• Hyperphysics: Atmospheric Optics  - Presents photographs, diagrams, and explanations of the physics behind phenomena such as rainbows, sky color, coronas, and mirages.
• Optics of the Atmosphere  - Offers photographs and explanations for rainbows, halos, noctilucent clouds, and diffraction phenomena.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Light and Optics  - Presents photographs, illustrations, and descriptions of how rays, pillars, halos, and rainbows are created.
• Weatherscapes.com: Atmospheric optics  - Extensive photographic gallery of effects caused by ice crystals and water droplets, at sunrise, sunset, and twilight, and other refraction, reflection, and diffraction examples.