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Ice-Crystal Haloes

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A NOTE in NATURE of March 13, 1943, p. 300, reported the occurrence at Bournemouth of what was interpreted as the arc of contact to the 46° halo. Without complete data positive identification of the arc in question is not possible, but it is far more likely to have been the common circumzenithal arc.

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SAVILE, D. Ice-Crystal Haloes. Nature 153, 25 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153025a0

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