#BergenWaveWatching: Rainbows!
Reposting from Elin’s blog here! — Kjersti, Steffi, Elin and myself (Mirjam) recently discussed ways to better integrate the GEOF105 student cruise into the course. My suggestion was to ask…
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Lille Lungegårdsvannet
The geometric shape of Lille Lungegårdsvannet makes for perfect wave watching conditions. Not only when wanting to look at waves from all sides, but also when you are just fascinated…
April weather in September (Great for #WaveWatching and cloud watching!)
Minutes after drawing the illustration to the “you are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop” quote I shared yesterday in the most beautiful…
Rainbows in regnbyen Bergen
Yesterday when approaching Bergen airport, I saw something super cool: The lower half of a rainbow! Even though I grabbed my phone and snapped a picture in record time, I…
Alexander’s band: the dark space in between a primary and secondary rainbow
Bergen is a fairly wet place with on average 240 rain days every year. But that actually provides us with the perfect opportunity to see plenty of rainbows. Here is…
A touristy post about my trip to Heligoland
I recently went on a trip to Heligoland, Germany’s only island that is far away from the mainland (70 km in this case). It was a great trip, and I…
The difference between secondary rainbows and double rainbows
More reflection or more rain? Ha, aren’t you enjoying talking about optics again? Sometimes you see two rainbows that both have red on the outside and blue on the inside.…
Sun dogs
Recently spotted: sun dogs, a special form of halo! Or rather sun dog (singular), since there was only one to be seen and not a second one at equal distance…
Rainbows and prisms
Lets go back and talk about one of my favorite non-oceanographic topics: Rainbows! When I had my rainbow phase about a year ago, my mom sent me the movie below, which shows what…
What are the ingredients of a rainbow?
Still collecting materials for our instructional short movies. A while back I talked about how my colleague and I were experimenting with short instructional screen casts, and I shared some…
Why do we only see rainbows in the mornings and evenings, but never at noon?
Another movie on rainbows My dearest readers, I hope you are still as fascinated by rainbows as I am? Today I’m giving you another movie explaining something rainbow-related, namely why…
Rainbows III
Updated movie following Arne’s advice. When I asked for feedback on the rainbow movies the other day, Arne had a pretty good idea for how one of the explanations could…
Secondary rainbows
Sometimes you get lucky and see a double rainbow. But how does the second rainbow form? On my first 17th of May in Bergen, Ellen invited me to her home…
Rainbows and refraction II
Taking the same graphics as in this post, but presenting them differently. In the previous post, I presented a screen cast explaining, in a very text-booky way, how rainbows form.…
Rainbows and refraction
Why is a rainbow always red on top and blue at the bottom? We always talk about prisms and refraction and stuff, but be honest – would you be able to…