Researchers shed new light on how fog forms in mountainous areas

In the winter of 2022, University of Utah researchers operated this weather station near Utah’s Deer Creek Reservoir in the Heber Valley where they installed a trove of meteorological instrumentation for an intensive study of fog formation. Credit: Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah

Of the world’s various weather phenomena, fog is perhaps the most mysterious, forming and dissipating near the ground with fluctuations in air temperature and humidity interacting with the terrain itself.

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News Source: phys.org


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