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Advection Fog

Fog forms in different ways: - Radiation fog forms at night when the ground cools by emitting infrared radiation, causing nearby air to cool to its dew point. - Advection fog occurs when moist air moves over a cooler surface, such as over snow or cooler waters like along the California coast. - Sea smoke forms when cold air passes over warmer water or moist land, often causing freezing fog.

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Advection Fog

Fog forms in different ways: - Radiation fog forms at night when the ground cools by emitting infrared radiation, causing nearby air to cool to its dew point. - Advection fog occurs when moist air moves over a cooler surface, such as over snow or cooler waters like along the California coast. - Sea smoke forms when cold air passes over warmer water or moist land, often causing freezing fog.

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Minute particles of water

constitute this after dark radiation


fog in Oregon with the ambient
temperature 2 C (28 F).
Up-close view of water particles
forming fog.
San Francisco fog with the
Golden Gate Bridge in the
foreground and the San Francisco
skyline in the background.
Ground fog is fog that obscures less than 60% of the sky and does not extend to the base of any overhead
clouds.
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However, the term is usually a synonym for radiation fog.
Advection fog
Advection fog occurs when moist air passes over a cool surface by
advection (wind) and is cooled.
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It is common as a warm front passes
over an area with significant snow-pack. It is most common at sea when
moist air encounters cooler waters, including areas of cold water upwelling,
such as along the California coast (see San Francisco fog). The advection of
fog along the California coastline is propelled onto land by one of several
processes. A cold front can push the marine layer coast-ward, an
occurrence most typical in the spring or late fall. During the summer months,
a low pressure trough produced by intense heating inland creates a strong
pressure gradient, drawing in the dense marine layer. Also during the
summer, strong high pressure aloft over the desert southwest, usually in
connection with the summer monsoon, produces a south to southeasterly
flow which can drive the offshore marine layer up the coastline; a
phenomenon known as a "southerly surge", typically following a coastal heat
spell. However, if the monsoonal flow is sufficiently turbulent, it might instead
break up the marine layer and any fog it may contain. Moderate turbulence
will typically transform a fog bank, lifting it and breaking it up into shallow
convective clouds called stratocumulus.
Sea smoke
Sea smoke, also called steam fog or evaporation fog, is the most
localized form and is created by cold air passing over warmer water or moist
land.
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It often causes freezing fog, or sometimes hoar frost.
Arctic sea smoke
Arctic sea smoke is similar to sea smoke, but occurs when the air is very
cold. Instead of condensing into water droplets, the evaporating water
desublimates into ice crystals.
Precipitation fog
Precipitation fog (or frontal fog) forms as precipitation falls into drier air
below the cloud, the liquid droplets evaporate into water vapor. The water
vapor cools and at the dewpoint it condenses and fog forms.
Up-slope fog

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