Atmospheric Optics

Weather
Preciptation | Winds
Preciptation Rain | Drizzle | Showers | Thunderstorms | Ice Pellets | Freezing Rain | Rain & Snow Mixed
Preciptation Snow | Flurries | Snowsqualls
Clouds Fog | Odd Clouds | Mist | Haze
Thunderstorms Lightning | Sprites & Other Stuff | Tornados | Hail

http://web.archive.org/web/20021001040244/http://www.nofc.forestry.ca/~kanderso/ltgfaq.html Lightning faq
http://powerweb.grc.nasa.gov/pvsee/publications/marslight.html Mars lightning paper
http://www-star.stanford.edu/projects/mgs/dmwr.html  Mars weather report

Rays & Shadows
Sunrise and sunset High-level low-level and mid-level cloud coloring | Precipiatation colors
Twlight phenomena Afterglow | Belt of Venus | Purple Red | Twilight anticrepuscular rays | Twlight Arch
Twlight phenomena Twilight crepuscular rays | Twilight wedge
Crepuscular rays | Anti-crepuscular | Cloud shadows
Opposition effect | Haze | Rayleigh scattering | Reddening at horizon | Silver linings

Water Droplets
Corona | Clouds & Fog | Iridescent Clouds | Fogbow | The Glory | Heiligenschein | Cloud Bow | Dew Bow | Brocken Spectre | Anitsolar iridscence | Corona | Glory | Iridescence

Rain & Rainbows Single & double rainbows | supernumerary rays

Ice Halos
Common 22 Degree | Parhelia (Sun Dogs) | Upper/ Lower Tangent Arc | Sun Pillar | Circumzenith Arc | Parhelic Circle
Uncommon 46 Degree Halo | 120 Degree Pahelia | Parry Arcs | Pyramidal Crystal Halos | Supra/Infralateral Arcs | Subsun | Circumhorizontal
Rarer  

High Atmosphere Nacreous Clouds | Noctilucent clouds

Atmospheric refraction
Distortion of sun & moon | Flattening of sun & moon | Green flash | Red Flash | Inferior mirages (land | road | water) | Superior mirages | Shimmering

Reflection phenomena Glitter path | Water reflections

Various phenomena Mach bands | Sky polarization

Clouds
Low-level clouds Fog | Fractocumulus | Nimbostratus | Stratocumulus | Stratus
Mid-level clouds Altocumulus | Altostratus | Castellanus | Floccus
High-level clouds Cirrocumulus | Cirrostratus | Cirrus
Cumuliform clouds Cumulonimbus | Cumulus congestus | Cumulus humilis | Cumulus mediocris
Mesospheric clouds Noctilucent clouds
Contrails Contrail dipole vortices | Contrail funnels | Contrail instability waves | Contrail ring vortices
Contrails Contrail shadows | Contrail shearing | Contrails | Distrails | Shear (wing) funnels
Various cloud forms Cloud streets | Funnel clouds | Horseshoe-vortices | Lenticularis | Mammatus | Pileus
Various cloud forms  Praecipitatio | Pyrocumulus | Smog | Tuba | Virga
Severe weather Gust fronts | Gustnadoes | Haboobs | Hail fallstreaks | Roll clouds | Scud clouds | Shelf clouds
Severe weather  Storm flanking lines | Storm skyscapes | Tail clouds | Tornadoes | Updraft cumulus
Severe weather Updraft turrets | Wall clouds | Whale's mouth
Thunderstorm types: Multicell storms | Single-cell storms | Supercell storms

More
Ice & frost: Ice | Ice flowers | Ice-coated vegetation | Icicles | Lake ice | Rime | Snowscapes
Precipitation Hailstones | Snowflakes and ice crystals
Weather effects on soil Beach sand ripples | Soil mud crust
Light interference Soap film colors
Nocturnal phenomena Clouds at night | Light pollution

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