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Using the RainbowChase App

RainbowChase is the only app available that provides guidance to bring more rainbows into your life. 

Dr Steven Businger, Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), explains how to use the RainbowChase App to bring more rainbows into your life.

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At this time RainbowChase is limited to O‘ahu in the Hawaiian Islands.  In time, we plan to expand RainbowChase to work everywhere in Hawai‘i, then on to the rest of the US, followed by Asia and Europe.  RainbowChase may also evolve to provide guidance for viewing other atmospheric optics, such as halos, coronas, and brilliant sunsets. 

Finally, don’t overlook the wealth of weather data available on RainbowChase.

Sample RainbowChase screens:

Home screen
Home – your rainbow photos can be chosen to be featured on RainbowChase home gallery.
Chase screen
Chase – provides a map showing locations of rain, sun angle, and rainbow viewing angles in your vicinity.  This map guides your chase for rainbows. You have the option of viewing the locator logos on a map or on a satellite image.
Zoom in on the Chase map – The map opens with an overview of the island of O‘ahu, but you can use pinch-to-zoom to zoom in on your location, or other locations around the island, for more detail on the potential locations of rainbows.
Clouds screen
Clouds – provides animated images of cloud cover and offers a choice between images of cloud top temperature (Infrared), Near IR, Water Vapor, and Visible Light images that provide great resolution. The image pages have controls that allow you to control the speed of the animation, and step forward and backward.


Rain Screen
Rain – shows an animation of rain showers in your vicinity from radar. Controls allow you to control the speed of the animation, and step forward and backward.
Nowcast screen
Nowcast/Forecasts – provides the current and future weather at your location.
Photo screen
Photo – allows you to upload your photos of rainbows to your personal “my gallery.”  If you make the photos from “my gallery,” available to the RainbowChase developers, your photos could be chosen to be featured on the RainbowChase home gallery.  This implies that you have released the photo to the RainbowChase creative commons. 

RainbowChase: bring more rainbows into your life!


To download the app:
For iOS devices, please visit the App Store
For Android devices, please visit Google Play

RainbowChase was conceived and is being developed by Steven Businger* and Paul Cynn
*Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences (ATMO) in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM)
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