A climatology of solar radiation attenuation during fog episodes in the Central Valley of California

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English

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The California Geographer 46: 57-68

Notes

During the winter season, portions of the Central Valley in California experience as many as twenty-five days with widespread radiation fog (Holets and Swanson 1981). The development of radiation fog in this large valley system is reported routinely from October through April, with the months of December and January recording the most occurrences. During the winter season, the synoptic-scale circulation brings an alternating pattern of cyclonic weather systems followed by large anticyclones. The winter season storms often produce persistent rainfall across the Central Valley, which adds to soil moisture and raises the level of boundary layer moisture. The anticyclones that follow these storms bring clear skies, calm surface winds, and surface-based temperature inversions, which encourage radiation fog formation.

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A climatology of solar radiation attenuation during fog episodes in the Central Valley of California