rainbow – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

#BergenWaveWatching: Rainbows!

mglessmer — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 15:42:19 +0000

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 the students to observe things throughout the whole duration of the course, and then have them relate their time series with what they observe when […]

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Lille Lungegårdsvannet

mglessmer — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:03:18 +0000

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 by reflections and geometric wave pattern. And also by rainbows. Am I the only one who, when the sun is out and at a good […]

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April weather in September (Great for #WaveWatching and cloud watching!)

mglessmer — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 05:05:30 +0000

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 sunshine, the sky started looking like this. Luckily I had a nice spot from which I could observe what happened next… …lots of drops. In […]

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Rainbows in regnbyen Bergen

mglessmer — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:33:42 +0000

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 didn’t manage to capture it. Bummer! But that doesn’t keep me from writing about it while showing you a “normal” rainbow I took a picture […]

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Alexander’s band: the dark space in between a primary and secondary rainbow

mglessmer — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 07:18:12 +0000

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 the view from the window of my apartment in the university guest house yesterday (and I love the raindrops on the windowpane!): Isn’t this beautiful? […]

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A touristy post about my trip to Heligoland

mglessmer — Tue, 31 May 2016 10:49:46 +0000

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 know you’ll be reading about it for some weeks to come :-) Today, we’ll just do the touristy parts, though, and get into the oceanography […]

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The difference between secondary rainbows and double rainbows

mglessmer — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 09:39:18 +0000

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. And according to my post on secondary rainbows, that should not be the case. Yet is has been observed. Why? As you remember, secondary rainbows […]

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Sun dogs

mglessmer — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:49:55 +0000

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 from the sun but on its opposite side. These pictures are exactly as my camera took them without any filters or color enhancement or anything. […]

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Rainbows and prisms

mglessmer — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:56:02 +0000

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 you see when you look directly into the prism that paints these kinds of rainbows all over my parents’ living room: When you look directly into […]

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What are the ingredients of a rainbow?

mglessmer — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 04:21:22 +0000

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 first attempts at movies on how rainbows form. We are still working on a story board for an improved version, but I was lucky enough […]

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