What is Advection Fog?

The formation of fog when warm and moist air passes over a cool or cold surface or, conversely, when cold air passes over a warm and moist surface. Examples include advection fogs, monsoon fogs, sea fog, and tropical air fog.

Glossary

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

A measurement determined by the wave lengths and sea conditions caused by the effect of wind, and by the movement of tree...

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

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