An overview of the MATERHORN fog project: observations and predictability

I Gultepe, HJS Fernando, ER Pardyjak… - Pure and Applied …, 2016 - Springer
A field campaign design to study fog processes in complex terrain was a component of the
Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations (MATERHORN) Program. The …

Current challenges in orographic flow dynamics: turbulent exchange due to low-level gravity-wave processes

SB Vosper, AN Ross, IA Renfrew, P Sheridan… - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper examines current understanding of the influence of orographic flow dynamics on
the turbulent transport of momentum and scalar quantities above complex terrain. It …

Cold fog amongst complex terrain

Z Pu, ER Pardyjak, SW Hoch, I Gultepe… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Cold fog forms via various thermodynamic, dynamic, and microphysical processes when the
air temperature is less than 0° C. It occurs frequently during the cold season in the western …

Sub‐km scale numerical weather prediction model simulations of radiation fog

DKE Smith, IA Renfrew, SR Dorling… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The numerical weather prediction (NWP) of fog remains a challenge, with accurate forecasts
relying on the representation of many interacting physical processes. The recent Local And …

Radiation and cloud-base lowering fog events: Observational analysis and evaluation of WRF and HARMONIE

C Román-Cascón, C Yagüe, GJ Steeneveld… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
Most of the effects caused by fog are negative for humans. Yet, numerical weather prediction
(NWP) models still have problems to simulate fog properly, especially in operational …

Fog in heterogeneous environments: the relative importance of local and non‐local processes on radiative‐advective fog formation

L Ducongé, C Lac, B Vié, T Bergot… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A 100 m resolution simulation of radiation fog observed during the Local And Non‐local Fog
EXperiment (LANFEX) was performed over the Shropshire hills (UK) in order to understand …

Comparing mountain breezes and their impacts on CO2 mixing ratios at three contrasting areas

C Román-Cascón, C Yagüe, JA Arrillaga, M Lothon… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
This work presents the characterisation and comparison of daytime and nighttime mountain
breezes observed at three sites through the analysis of tower data. The sites are located:(i) …

Direct numerical simulation of turbulent slope flows up to Grashof number

MG Giometto, GG Katul, J Fang… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Stably stratified turbulent flows over an unbounded, smooth, planar slo** surface at high
Grashof numbers are examined using direct numerical simulations (DNS). Four slo** …

Interplay between topography, fog and vegetation in the central South Arabian mountains revealed using a novel Landsat fog detection technique

L Ball, J Tzanopoulos - Remote Sensing in Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the central South Arabian mountains of Yemen and Oman, monsoon fog
interception by the endemic cloud forest is essential for ecosystem functions and services …

Turbulence Effects on the Formation of Cold Fog Over Complex Terrain With Large‐Eddy Simulation

X Li, Z Pu - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A large eddy simulation (LES) embedded in the mesoscale community Weather Research
and Forecasting model is used to examine the effects of turbulence on cold fog formation …