© Frank Le Blancq

Kurintar, Darechok, Nepal

Latitude: 27° 52' 27'' N

Longitude: 84° 36' 58'' E

10 January 2015 1406 (Local Time)
Camera direction: towards SE

Image P/S code: P.12.1.1

Image I.D.: 4831

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  Haze

  Haze is a suspension in the air of extremely small, dry particles that are invisible to the naked eye and sufficiently numerous to give the air an opalescent appearance. 

  In this picture, haze progressively obscures the detail of successive hill slopes further from the camera. The haze was caused by general pollution and smoke from small bonfires which stagnated over successive days in the sheltered central valley of Nepal during the winter.

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  © Frank Le Blancq
  Kurintar, Darechok, Nepal
  Latitude: 27° 52' 27'' N
  Longitude: 84° 36' 58'' E
  10 January 2015 1406 (Local Time)
  
  
  Camera direction: towards SE
  Image P/S code: P.12.1.1
  Image I.D.: 4831
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  Haze

  The dry north-east monsoon brought generally fine but hazy weather to the coastal areas of Guangdong, China. Haze reduced the visibility at Hong Kong International Airport to 1 900 m at the time this photograph was taken.

  Haze is a suspension in the air of extremely small, dry particles. As light is scattered by haze particles, distant bright objects (in this case, the Sun and the surrounding bright sky) appear yellowish or reddish in colour.  

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  © Man Yi Mak
  Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, China
  Latitude: 22° 18' 55'' N
  Longitude: 113° 55' 22'' E
  12 February 2015 0752 (Local Time)
  
  
  Camera direction: towards E
  Image P/S code: S.12.1.1
  Image I.D.: 4970
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  Arrival of a dust storm/sandstorm

  This is the first in a series of four pictures that show the onset of a dust storm or sandstorm due to shamal winds.

  In this image there is a slight haze. Also, note that the sky is blue at this stage.

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  © Peter Sunden
  Camp Arifjan, Al Ahmadi Governorate, Kuwait
  Latitude: 28° 55' 12'' N
  Longitude: 48° 9' 0'' E
  10 April 2007 0800 (Local Time)
  
  
  Image P/S code: S.12.2.2
  Image I.D.: 5610
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  Variation in visibility (haze)

  (Please refer also to image identifiers PR.203 and PR.204)

  These photographs show three successive aspects of the same landscape, with different turbidities of the air, corresponding respectively to total visibilities of 25, 100 and 400 km. When there is a veil of haze (0944 hours) the distant landscape has a greyish opalescent colour. When the visibility is good (1407 hours, in this image) the landscape takes on a much stronger blue hue and the real colours and details of the countryside appear.

  The views were taken in an anticyclonic situation, outside the area of any disturbance.

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  © T. Bergeron
  Ånn, Sweden
  Latitude: 63° 19' 32'' N
  Longitude: 12° 32' 5'' E
  25 August 1944 1407 (Local Time)
  
  
  Camera direction: towards ESE
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