The Rayleigh sky model describes the observed polarization pattern of the daytime sky. Within the atmosphere, Rayleigh scattering of light by air molecules...
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but is most prominently seen in gases. Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in Earth's atmosphere causes diffuse sky radiation, which is the reason for the...
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Aerial perspective Cyanometer Daylight Nighttime airglow Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh sky model Sunshine duration Sunset#Colors Sunrise#Colors Tyndall effect...
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"Rayleigh scattering", which notably explains why the sky is blue. He studied and described transverse surface waves in solids, now known as "Rayleigh...
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Rayleigh scattering Filtered Rayleigh scattering Forced Rayleigh scattering Hyper–Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh roughness criterion Rayleigh sky model...
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Polarization (waves) (redirect from Sky polarization)
light microscopy Polarizer Polaroid (polarizer) Radial polarization Rayleigh sky model Waveplate Shipman, James; Wilson, Jerry D.; Higgins, Charles A. (2015)...
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most of the light in the daytime sky is caused by scattering, which is dominated by a small-particle limit called Rayleigh scattering. The scattering due...
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90 degrees. Mueller calculus Jones calculus Polarization (waves) Rayleigh Sky Model Stokes operators Polarization mixing Stokes, G. G. (1851). On the...
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honey bees can navigate by the Sun, by the polarization pattern of the blue sky, and by the Earth's magnetic field; of these, they rely on the Sun when possible...
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Mie scattering (redirect from Rayleigh–Gans)
Furthermore, the intensity of Rayleigh scattered radiation is identical in the forward and reverse directions. The Rayleigh scattering model breaks down when the...
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enough in scale for Rayleigh's model to apply. This scattering mechanism is the primary cause of the blue color of the Earth's sky on a clear day, as the...
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dominated by a Rayleigh Scattering process. Instead, the air is full of red dust, blown into the atmosphere by high winds, so its sky color is mainly...
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system using a statistical model to produce results. Other statistical methods for predicting fading, including Rayleigh fading and Rician fading, can...
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passes through the Earth's atmosphere. This is done by a combination of Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering. As a ray of white sunlight travels through...
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clouds, and later the ocean. Rayleigh–Taylor instability Richtmyer–Meshkov instability Mushroom cloud Plateau–Rayleigh instability Kármán vortex street...
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absorption is distinctly weaker. Along with Rayleigh scattering, it contributes to the blue color of the sky, and is noticeable when the light has to travel...
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Light pollution (redirect from Sky pollution)
Dark-Sky Association has developed a set of model lighting ordinances. The Dark-Sky Association was started to reduce the light going up into the sky which...
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of light in the stroma, a phenomenon similar to Rayleigh scattering which accounts for the blue sky. Neither blue nor green pigments are present in the...
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Blue (section Sky and sea)
contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called...
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available to calculate light scattering properties in DDA approximation. Rayleigh scattering regime is the scattering of light, or other electromagnetic...
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also involved in producing the appearance of the blue sky (see Rayleigh Scattering: 'Rayleigh scattering of molecular nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere...
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Radio propagation (redirect from Radio propagation model)
management Ray tracing (physics) Rayleigh fading Schumann resonance Skip (radio) Skip zone Skywave Traffic generation model Tropospheric propagation TV and...
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lens. Earth appears as a blue dot in the photograph primarily because of Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in its atmosphere. In Earth's air, short-wavelength...
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Copula (statistics) (redirect from Gaussian copula model)
1049/el:20073737. ISSN 0013-5194. Liu, X. (2010). "Copulas of bivariate Rayleigh and log-normal distributions". Electronics Letters. 46 (25): 1669–1671...
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10−1 μm. Using both models, the planet's temperature would be between 1340 and 1540 K. The Rayleigh effect is confirmed in other models, and by the apparent...
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Air to ground channel (section Channel modeling)
converge at the receiver. To quantify this behavior, statistical models such as the Rayleigh and Rice distributions are frequently used. Both are founded...
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Dimensional analysis (redirect from Rayleigh's method of dimensional analysis)
the first time in this way in 1872 by Lord Rayleigh, who was trying to understand why the sky is blue. Rayleigh first published the technique in his 1877...
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Atmospheric optics (section Sky coloration)
Examples of meteorological phenomena include: The blue color of the sky. This is from Rayleigh scattering, which sends more higher frequency/shorter wavelength...
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between the mountains and the sky. The bluish color is caused by an optical effect called Rayleigh scattering. The sunlit sky is blue because air scatters...
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