~A small example simply reveals a big mystery.
~ For horizon observations, sea ice must warm or cool faster than surface air, this is impossible with a standard physics interpretation.
~There must be an unknown thermal transfer factor which has huge implications with
~A small example simply reveals a big mystery.
~ For horizon observations, sea ice must warm or cool faster than surface air, this is impossible with a standard physics interpretation.
~There must be an unknown thermal transfer factor which has huge implications with sea ice models.
Basic refraction optics are easy to understand. A road mirage exists because there is very hot air above the pavement, a mere few centimeters above, where the temperature interface has a very steep unstable adiabatic profile immediately on top of the road. The much hotter air creates an inferior mirage. Similar inferior mirages are possible mainly during Arctic fall. A lesser optical effect with a not so steep but strong adiabatic lapse rate are horizon shifts which are called dips. It was observed repeatedly that refraction horizons vary greatly over sea ice, but these variations are linked with the surface to air interface just as much. Like the hot pavement, sea ice is a thermal body, however much unlike road materials, sea ice reflects more incoming sunlight without absorbing it. But the following sequence sugg