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WHOI physical oceanographer Peter Winsor peers over the massive bow of the icebreaker Oden as an instrument called a ?CTD? is dangled into the ice-covered Arctic Ocean depths. Arching behind his head is a fogbow, a common Arctic meteorological phenomenon caused by sunlight refracting water droplets in a fog bank.

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Posted: May 31, 2013

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