Parhelic-circle
noun, Meteorology.
1.
a white, horizontal band passing through the sun, either incomplete or extending around the horizon, produced by the reflection of the sun’s rays from the vertical faces of ice prisms in the atmosphere.
noun
1.
(meteorol) a luminous band at the same altitude as the sun, parallel to the horizon, caused by reflection of the sun’s rays by ice crystals in the atmosphere
parhelic circle
(pär-hē’lĭk)
A luminous halo visible at the height of the Sun and parallel to the horizon, caused by the Sun’s rays reflecting off atmospheric ice crystals.
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