Atmospheric Alphabet
This "R" Term is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets.
What is a Rainbow?
In this famous Greek legend, the eponymous hero traverses most of the Mediterranean Sea on his way home.
What is the Odyssey?
This PBS Kids show from 1999 featured a protagonist lemur and taught children about animals.
What is Zoboomafoo?
This peninsular range of mountains in Washington hosts 15 named glaciers.
What are the Olym(pi)c Mountains?
Sea breezes are an example of this scale of meteorology.
What is mesoscale meteorology?
An "A" term describing the optical phenomenon that results from disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind.
What is an Aurora Borealis?
First recorded by Plato, the legend of this civilization that sank into the Atlantic Ocean later inspired an animated Disney film.
What is Atlantis?
This region of Wisconsin (and surrounding states) is famous for never having been glaciated during the most recent Ice Age.
What is the Driftless Area/Region?
This National Park is famous for its California Condors.
What is (Pi)nnacles National Park?
This company is responsible for the inclusion of cranberry juice, rather than grenadine, in the "sea breeze" cocktail.
What is Ocean Spray?
This "C" term, sometimes colloquially called "god rays", are sunbeams that originate when the Sun appears just above or below a layer of clouds at twilight and are noticeable when the contrast between light and dark are the most obvious.
What are Crepuscular Rays?
This popular children's movie protagonist who lives in the ocean was named for a character from Moby Dick.
Who is Nemo?
This well-known, modern scientist and author has written three books about the ways that Potawatomi knowledge and environmental science interact.
Who is Robin Wall Kimmerer?
This glacier subtype is known for its fan-like appearance on valley floors.
What are (Pie)dmont Glaciers?
In the early 20th century, doctors attributed the strengthening effects of "sea air" to improvements in the conditions of patients with this illness, even naming one sanitarium "Sea Breeze".
What is tuberculosis?
This "S" term (or "P" term in atmospheric sciences) consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the sun. They can be seen anywhere in the world during any season and are most conspicuous when the Sun is near the horizon.
What is a Sun Dog or Parhelion (will also accept "mock sun")?
At the end of The Return of the King, Frodo and others set off to cross this ocean.
What is Belegaer/the Great Sea/the Western Sea/the Sundering Sea?
This Wisconsin senator is famous for having founded Earth Day.
Who is Gaylord Nelson?
This country hosts the famous "Roof of Africa" -- an area of incredible highlands.
What is Ethio(pi)a?
This mid-Atlantic U.S. state contains a community named "Sea Breeze", made up entirely of seasonal homes after permanent homes were devastated by hurricanes and fire.
What is New Jersey?
This "L" term comes from tiny crystals of ice hanging in the atmosphere.
What is a Light Pillar?
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld Series, this ocean pours over the edges of the flat world.
What is the Rim Ocean?
This animated 1992 film about rainforests features a fairy named Crysta and is set near "Mount Warning".
What is Fern Gully?
This Glacier National Park pass had the distinction of being one of three mountain passes in the park to host a locomotive bell in 1926.
What is (Pie)gan Pass?
Francis Beaufort, creator of the Beaufort Wind Scale, used this phrase to describe a wind speed between a "moderate breeze" and a "strong breeze".
What is a fresh breeze?