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Recent observations and modeling study about sea fog over the Yellow Sea and East China Sea

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This review presents some of the latest achievements in sea fog research, including fog climatology, fog structure in the marine atmospheric boundary layer, and numerical simulations and forecasting of fog. With the development of atmospheric observational techniques and equipments, new facts about sea fog are revealed. The mechanisms involved in the formation, development and dissipation of sea fog are further explored with the help of advanced atmospheric models.

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Zhang, S. Recent observations and modeling study about sea fog over the Yellow Sea and East China Sea. J. Ocean Univ. China 11, 465–472 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-012-1873-2

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