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Bibliography

Halo related books and articles are collected in this bibliography.

Books in English

  • Greenler. R.G., "Rainbows, Haloes, and Glories," Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1980)
  • Herd T., "Kaleidoscope sky," Abrams Books (2007)
  • Können G.P., "Polarized Light in Nature," Cambridge University Press, New York (1985)
  • Minnaert M., "The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air," translation by H.M. Kremer-Priest, rev. K.E. Brian Jay, Dover, New York (1954)
    • Finnish edition: "Maiseman valot ja värit," Ursa, Helsinki (1987)
  • Tape W.R., "Atmospheric Halos," American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C. (1994)
  • Tape W.R. and Moilanen J., "Atmospheric Halos and the Search for Angle X," American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C. (2006)

Articles in English

  • Dale R., "Elliptical halos," Nature 101, p. 2529 (1918)
  • Evans W.F.J. and Tricker R.A.R., "Unusual arcs in the Saskatoon display," Weather, 27, p. 234-238 (1972)
  • Fraser, A.B., "What Size of Ice Crystals Causes the Halos?" Journal of the Optical Society of America, 69, p. 1112-1118 (1979)
  • Greenler R.G. and Tränkle E., "Anthelic arcs from airborne ice crystals," Nature 311, p. 339-343 (1984)
  • Hakumäki J. and Pekkola M., "Rare vertically elliptical halos," Weather 44, pp. 466-473 (1989)
  • Hastings, C.S., "A General Theory of Halos," Monthly Weather Review, 48, p. 322-330 (1920)
  • Moilanen J., "New halo in northern Finland," Weather 53 n. 8, pp. 241-243 (Aug 1998).
  • Neiman P.J., "The Boulder, Colorado, Concentric Halo Display of 21 July 1986," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 70 n. 3, pp. 258-264 (1989)
  • Pattloch F. and Tränkle E.', "Monte Carlo simulation and analysis of halo phenomena," Journal of the Optical Society of America A 1, n. 5, pp. 520-526 (1984)
  • Pekkola M., "Finnish Halo Observing Network: search for rare halo phenomena," Applied Optics 30 n. 24, pp. 3542-3544, 3552 (20 Aug 1991).
  • Pekkola M., Riikonen M., Moilanen J. and Ruoskanen J., "Halo arcs From Airborne, Pyramidal Ice Crystals Falling With Their Axes in Vertical Orientation," Applied Optics 37 n. 9, pp. 1435-1440 (20 March 1998).
  • Riikonen M. and Ruoskanen J., "Observations of vertically elliptical halos," Applied Optics 33, pp. 4537-4538 (20 July 1994).
  • Riikonen M., Moilanen J., Sillanpää M. and Nieuwenhuys F., "Rare odd-radius column arcs," Weather 58 n. 9, pp. 346-351 (Sept 2003)
  • Riikonen M., Sillanpää M., Virta L., Sullivan D., Moilanen J. and Luukkonen I., "Halo observations provide evidence of airborne cubic ice in the Earth's atmosphere," Applied Optics 39 n. 33, pp. 6080-6085 (20 Nov 2000)
  • Ripley E.A. and Saugier B., "Photometeors at Saskatoon on 3 December 1970," Weather, 26, pp. 150-157 (1971)
  • Sillanpää M., "Observing ice crystal halos," The Astronomer 34 (399), pp. 70-77 (1997)
  • Sillanpää M., Moilanen J., Pekkola M., Penttinen M. and Piikki J., "Unusual pyramidal ice in the atmosphere as the origin of elliptical halos," Applied Optics 38, pp. 5089-5059 (1999)
  • Sillanpää M., Moilanen J., Riikonen M. and Pekkola M., "Blue spot on the parhelic circle," Applied Optics 40 n. 30, pp. 5275-5279 (20 Oct 2001)
  • Tape W., "Analytic Foundations of Halo Theory," Journal of the Optical Society of America 70, n. 10, p. 1175-1192 (1980)
  • Tränkle E. and Greenler R.G., "Multiple scattering effects in halo phenomena," Journal of the Optical Society of America A 4, p. 591-599 (1987)
  • Tränkle E. and Riikonen M., "Elliptical Halos, Bottlinger's rings, and the ice-plate snow-star transition," Applied Optics 35 n. 24, pp. 4871-4878 (20 Aug 1996).
  • Tricker R.A.R., "Arcs associated with halos of unusual radii," Journal of the Optical Society of America 69, p. 1093-1100 (1979)
  • Tricker R.A.R., "A Simple Theory of Certain Heliacal and Anthelic Halo Arcs...," Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 99, pp. 649-656 (1973)
  • Whalley E., "Scheiner's halo: Evidence for Ice Ic in the Atmosphere," Science 211, n. 4480, p. 389-390 (1981)

Collections

  • Halo section of Ursa, "Sivuaurinko," with English summary in Ursa Minor, a bimonthly publication by Ursa, Helsinki (1986-, 1984-1986 part of Valot ja värit).
  • Publications by Günther Können available for free download.
  • Optical Society of America, "On Minnaert's Shoulders: Twenty Years of the 'Light and Color' Conferences," Classical Reprints on CD-ROM Volume 1, OSA (1999).

Books and articles in other languages

  • Bravais, M.A., "Mémoire sur les Halos et les Phénomènes Optiques qui les Accompagnent," Journal de l'école Royale Polytechnique, 31, p. 1-270 (1912)
  • Hevelius, J., "Mercurius in Sole visus Gedani...," p. 173-176, Simon Reiniger (1662)
  • Karttunen H., Koistinen J., Saltikoff E. and Manner O, "Ilmakehä ja sää, " Ursa, Vaasa (1997)
  • Lowitz T., "Décription d'un Météore Remarquable, Observé à St. Pétersbourg le 18 Juin 1790," Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae, 8, pp. 384-388 (1794)
  • Mariotte E., "Oeuvres de Mr. Mariotte...," Volume 1, Traité des Couleurs, pp. 272-281, Pierre Vander (1717)
  • Pekkola M., Sillanpää M. and Ruoskanen J., "Valkean taivaan vieraat, " 3. edition, Ursan halojaosto, Helsinki (1999)