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‘ARCTIC haze’ refers to turbid layers of air which are found regularly over the pack ice north of Alaska during periods of clear weather1. These layers are diffuse, hundreds to thousands of kilometres wide, 1–3 km thick, and can occur as single or multiple bands of different heights at nearly any level in the troposphere. They are invisible from the ground, but may limit horizontal and slant visibility within a layer to as little as 3–8 km. Their colour is grey–blue in the antisolar direction and reddish–brown in the solar direction, suggesting that they are true aerosol rather than ice crystals.
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RAHN, K., BORYS, R. & SHAW, G. The Asian source of Arctic haze bands. Nature 268, 713–715 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/268713a0
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