Microphysical Modeling and Detection of Marine Fog
Abstract
Funds are provided to investigate ways to improve forecasting of marine fog and to better remotely sense fog from spaceborne sensors. The proposed effort will address both modeling and observations of fog. On the modeling side, the focus will be on the cloud microphysics. The PI will conduct a large idealized simulations of marine fog using the RAMS model and construct statistical emulators of the model output to gain a thorough understanding of the sensitivity of fog simulations to microphysics scheme parameters and configurations. Conclusions from this analysis will be tested in specific case study simulations using Navys COAMPS model with the RAMS microphysics parameterization. For validation of marine fog simulations the proposed effort will leverage recent techniques for fog detection that have been developed using polar-orbiting satellite data and European geostationary satellite data. These techniques will be applied and modified where necessary to GOES and Himawari geostationary satellite data to detect the presence of marine fog over the Atlantic and Pacific.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 08, 2020
- Source ID
- N000142012304
Entities
People
- Adele L. Igel
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of California, Davis