Polar Phenomena

Polar Phenomena

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Polar Phenomena

Northern lights, Aurora borealis, over a Nenets reindeer herders camp. Yamal Peninsula, W.Siberia, Russia

Northern lights, the Aurora Borealis, over the taiga. Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

Moonlit Iceberg taken at midday during the polar night. Ice polished by the wind. N.W. Greenland. 1980

The Inuit village of Moriussaq at midday during the Polar Night. Northwest Greenland. (1980)

Dramatic Asperatus cloud formation as a storm builds at dawn over Qaanaaq, Inglefield Bay. Northwest Greenland. 2008

Inuit hunter & dog team silhouetted against sea smoke mist which forms at -40C. N.W.Greenland. 1980

Caused by ice crystals in the air, a sun pillar glows above icebergs in Melville Bay. Northwest Greenland. 1998

Parhelion / sun dogs over sea ice and a polar bear mother and cubs. Churchill. Manitoba. Canada.

At -40 degrees Celsius frost smoke rises off the freezing sea at the floe edge near Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

When thrown into cold air at minus 53 degrees Celsius boiling water explodes into vapour & ice. This is because boiling water is close to a gas and breaks into tiny droplets that can freeze at once. Siberia, Russia. 1999

$Sun Halo caused by refraction and reflection from ice crystals. Antarctica.$
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22 sun halo, with sun pillar, sun streak, Lowitz arcs, Upper Tangent Arc and Parry Arc at the top of the halo, all caused by diamond dust in the air above Halley Research Station, Brunt Ice Shelf. Antarctica.

'Ice flower' - frozen extrusions of salt formed on new sea ice as salt water freezes. Northwest Greenland. 1980

Fogbow over the thawing sea ice in the summer. Chukchi Sea / Arctic Ocean. Siberia. 1997

A large 'ice blister,' caused by water pressure, on a frozen river in Northern Evensk, Magadan region, E. Siberia, Russia. 2006

Northern lights, Aurora borealis, over a Nenets reindeer herders camp. Yamal Peninsula, W.Siberia, Russia

A window of a house coated in frost and snow during the winter in Yakutsk. Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. 2001

Dramatic Asperatus cloud formation as a storm brews at dawn over Inglefield Bay. Northwest Greenland. 2008

Aurora Borealis. Northern Lights. With rare red band. over the harbour at Skarsvag North Norway. 1990

Dramatic Asperatus cloud formation as a storm brews at dawn over Inglefield Bay. Northwest Greenland. 2008