Atmospheric Optics

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The figure “illustrates the bending of the solar rays entering the atmosphere. When the sun is below the horizon, at C, it would be invisible at A, on account of the curvature of the earth, if there were no atmosphere; but the solar rays entering the atmosphere near the point B are refracted so that they reach A, and the sun appears to be at D, though really at C below the horizon, either in the morning or in the evening. So that, in the polar regions, the sun is visible while it is in reality below the horizon, and is thus seen earlier and later during the time of polar sunlight.” -Waldo, 1896

Source

Frank Waldo Elementary Meteorology (New York, NY: American Book Company, 1896)

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