Fog

Fog: horizontal visibility < 0,5 mile (1000 m)

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In meteorology, fog is defined and further subdivided as follows:

Very dense fog - visibility less than 50 meters

Dense fog - visibility less than 200 meters

Fog - visibility less than 1000 meters

Mist - visibility over 1000 meters

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Fog is created by condensation of water vapor

Air temperature below dew point temperature creates fog
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We distinguish different types of fog:

Radiation fog or ditch fog

Advective fog
a. continental sea fog
b. maritime sea fog
c. maritime land fog
d. continental land fog

Arctic sea smoke

Rain fog or frontal fog

Fog can disappear by:

•Warming up
•Mixing with drier air
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Advective fog

Advetive fog is caused by:

Warm moist air that ends up in a cold environment.
Or
Cold air invades a moist environment
Sea fog is always advective fog
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Advective fog

Advective fog
Continental Sea Fog:
Occurs in Europe when warm land air blows over the cold water of the North Sea
with an offshore wind in the spring.
The further out to sea the thicker the fog
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Advective fog

maritime sea fog:

Created by air transport by sea.

Example:
warm moist air, supplied over the
warm Gulf Stream, strikes the cold
Labrador Current
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Advective fog
maritime land fog:
This is caused by warm moist air coming from the sea over land.
Due to (nightly) cooling above land, the water vapor present condenses
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Advective fog
continental land fog:

It is created by warm moist air supply on land that strokes over colder
regions.
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Fog, sky obscured (no

appreciable change during
the preceding hour).