PUBLICATIONS IN CLIMATOLOGY is issued as a medium for both regular and miscellaneous reports and papers of the Laboratory of Climatology, Centerton, New Jersey

摘要

An understanding of the physical processes which occur before and during the formation of radiation fog is a basic necessity for forecasting its development. Under conditions favorable for the formation of radiation fog the physical processes operating in the lowest few meters of the atmosphere are radiation, advection and eddy diffusion. Radiation would not affect the water vapor distribution, but if the temperature stratification were stable and wind speeds light, radiation might outweigh eddy diffusion in its effect on the temperature profile. It is theorized that under such conditions, eddy diffusion acts to produce a water vapor maximum at some level separated from the ground and that this would be a definite contributing factor in the formation of radiation fog.