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Mirages at Lake Geneva: the Fata Morgana

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Abstract

Fata Morgana mirages are frequently seen at Lake Geneva. We show the first photographs of them, including a real-time video, and explain their main features, which are due to the very turbulent entrainment zones of capping inversions, especially in valley circulations.

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Visualization 1: AVI (22697 KB)      Real-time video of mirages in the Torrent area.

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