NOVAYA ZEMLYA EFFECT

[baloki]

Rarely, as the long polar night draws to a close, the sun will suddenly burst above the horizon weeks ahead of schedule. This is the Novaya Zemiya Effect, and it is basically a polar mirage. Even when the sun is still 5° below the horizon, its light can become trapped between thermoclines and be transmitted over the usual horizon. The atmospheric ducts act much like flat light pipes. In the Novalya Zemlya Effect the sun's image is grossly distorted, quite different from the high quality mirages sometimes seen over hundreds of miles in the polar latitudes.

(Anonymous; "New Light on Novaya Zemlya Polar Mirage," Physics Today, 34: 21, January 1981.)

[Muninn]

You know I considered making a Coriolis Effect topic, but I'm glad I didn't now.

[baloki]

If everyone else gets to spam with picture threads...

[Tom Flapwell]

A Coriolus effect has to be better than a Coriolanus effect. Or at least less tragic.

[Holyman83]

Thats cool!

[Doc Sigma]

A Coriolus effect has to be better than a Coriolanus effect. Or at least less tragic.

You owe me a new keyboard. Well, the company will pay for it, so never mind. But it'll take me awhile to clean up this coffee.