Analysis of an extremely dense regional fog event in Eastern China using a mesoscale model

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 428-440

  Shi, Chune ^a   Yang, Jun ^b   Qiu, Mingyan ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a   Zhang, Su ^a   Li, Zihua ^b  

^a Anhui Institute of Meteorological Sciences   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Advection radiation fog; Dense regional fog; Formation and dissipation mechanism; Numerical simulation; Objective verification; Visibility calculation

Indexed keywords

DISSIPATION MECHANISM; FOG FORMATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OBJECTIVE VERIFICATION; RADIATION FOG; VISIBILITY CALCULATION;

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; VISIBILITY; WATER CONTENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FOG;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DISSIPATION; FOG; FORMATION MECHANISM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; VISIBILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANHUI; CHINA;

EID: 75849119900     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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