HUANG Jian, ZHOU Faxiu. The cooling and moistening effect on the formation of sea fog in the Huanghai Sea[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2006, (2): 49-62.
Citation:
HUANG Jian, ZHOU Faxiu. The cooling and moistening effect on the formation of sea fog in the Huanghai Sea[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2006, (2): 49-62.
HUANG Jian, ZHOU Faxiu. The cooling and moistening effect on the formation of sea fog in the Huanghai Sea[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2006, (2): 49-62.
Citation:
HUANG Jian, ZHOU Faxiu. The cooling and moistening effect on the formation of sea fog in the Huanghai Sea[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2006, (2): 49-62.
Department of Marine Meteorology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology of Guangzhou, China Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou 510080, China
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Department of Marine Meteorology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
With the sea surface observations from ICOADS for the years 1960~2002, the conditions of cooling, evaporation and water vapor transportation are analyzed and compared for the formation of seasonal sea fog in April-July in the Huanghai Sea.It is found that sea surface cooling is always existent during the fog seasons while sea surface evaporation only appears in April-June in the Huanghai Sea.Local evaporation alone is not sufficient to form fogs though it may lead to light ones.Water vapor transported from the low-latitudes accomplished by specific synoptic systems is the most important condition for sea fog formation.In general, the moistening effect is more important than the cooling one.