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A Multiple-Case Analysis of Nocturnal Radiation-Fog Development in the Central Valley of California Utilizing the GOES Nighttime Fog Product
Journal of Applied Meteorology; 2/1/2004; Underwood, S Jeffrey; Ellrod, Gary P; Kuhnert, Aaron L; 8065 words
; ABSTRACT Radiation fog in the Central Valley of California has ... Environmental Satellite (GOES) nighttime fog product to develop a sequence of images ... that reveal patterns of nocturnal radiation-fog development in the Central Valley. Twenty ...
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Some Aspects of Dense Fog in the Midwestern United States
Weather and Forecasting; 6/1/2007; Westcott, Nancy E; 4913 words
; ABSTRACT To better understand dense fog events in the midwestern United States, a fog climatology was developed that examines the surface weather conditions at dense fog onset and during dense fog events, in relationship ...
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Intercomparison of Single-Column Numerical Models for the Prediction of Radiation Fog
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology; 4/1/2007; Bergot, Thierry; Terradellas, Enric; Cuxart, Joan; Mira, Antoni; Et al; 7425 words
; ABSTRACT The short-term forecasting of fog is a difficult issue that can have a large societal impact. Radiation fog appears in the surface boundary layer, and ... models poorly forecast the life cycle of fog, and improved NWP models are needed before ...
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Getting clear on fog-related crashes in Tampa Bay
Institute of Transportation Engineers. ITE Journal; 2/1/2000; Turner, Patricia A; Pietrzyk, Michael C; 3560 words
; "FOG SEASON" IS USUALLY THE MONTHS OF DECEMBER, JANUARY AND FEBRUARY. WHEN FOG CONTRIBUTES TO A CRASH, THE RESULTS ARE USUALLY SPECTACULAR ... STEP PROCESS THAT WAS EMPLOYED TO EVALUATE ADVANCED FOG-DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES AND SUGGEST POSSIBLE STRATEGIES ...
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Event-Based Climatology and Typology of Fog in the New York City Region
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology; 8/1/2007; Tardif, Robert; Rasmussen, Roy M; 10897 words
; ... Hourly surface observations are used to identify fog events at 17 locations under the influence of ... character (urban, suburban, and rural), and terrain. Fog events at each location are classified by fog types using an objective algorithm derived after ...
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SEA FOG RESEARCH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND UNITED STATES A Historical Essay Including Outlook
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; 3/1/2004; Lewis, J M; Koracin, D; Redmond, K T; 7581 words
; ... measurements of relative humidity and concluded that the fog layer extended to 700 ft (210 m). Through this example ... others, he convincingly demonstrates the value of viewing fog formation in a Lagrangian framework. Taylor (1917) also discusses the formation of fog via the action of mixing humid yet ...
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A Satellite-Based Fog Detection Scheme Using Screen Air Temperature
Weather and Forecasting; 6/1/2007; Gultepe, I; Pagowski, M; Reid, J; 6151 words
; ... King. G. Isaac, P. Taylor, and B. Hansen. 2006a: The Fog Remote Sensing and Modeling (FRAM) field project and ... M. D. Mllier, and Z. Boybeyi, 2006b: A new warm fog parameterization scheme for numerical weather prediction ... droplet terminal velocity and extinction coefficient in fog models. J. Appl ... .
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Ground Fog Detection from Space Based on MODIS Daytime Data-A Feasibility Study
Weather and Forecasting; 12/1/2005; Bendix, Jörg; Thies, Boris; Cermak, Jan; Nauß, Thomas; 8431 words
; ... distinction made by satellite data between ground fog and low stratus is still an open problem ... for making the distinction between ground fog and low-level stratus is proposed based ... Weather Service and the results of the ground fog detection schemes reveals that the lookup ...
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A 35-GHz scanning Doppler radar for fog observations
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology; 7/1/2003; Hamazu, Kyosuke; Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki; Wakayama, Toshio; Matsuda, Tomoya; Et al; 5727 words
; ABSTRACT To observe fog, a 35-GHz scanning Doppler radar was designed ... The three-dimensional structure of sea fog and its advection are depicted with the ... denotes formulae omitted.) 1. Introduction Fog is, in simple terms, a cloud near the ground ...
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Analysis and Modeling of an Extremely Dense Fog Event in Southern Ontario
Journal of Applied Meteorology; 1/1/2004; Pagowski, Mariusz; Gultepe, Ismail; King, Patrick; 5526 words
; ABSTRACT In this study, a dense fog episode that occurred near Windsor, Ontario ... on 3 September 1999 is investigated. The fog patch, with a spatial scale of several kilometers ... several hypotheses on the origin of the fog are presented. A series of simulations of ...
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