Fog research: A review of past achievements and future perspectives

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 164, Issue 6-7, 2007, Pages 1121-1159

  Gultepe, Ismail ^a   Tardif, R ^b   Michaelides, Silas C ^c   Cermak, J ^d   Bott, A ^e   Bendix, J ^d   Muller M D ^f   Pagowski, Mariusz ^g   Hansen, B ^a   Ellrod, Gary ^h   Jacobs, Wilfried ⁱ   Toth, Garrym ^a   Cober, Stewart G ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h NOAA/NESDIS (Retired)   (United States)

ⁱ DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fog forecasting; Fog modeling; Fog observations; Fog remote sensing; Fog review

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DROPLET; FOG; FORECASTING METHOD; FORMATION MECHANISM; NOWCASTING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 34547580201     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-007-0211-x     Document Type: Review

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