B027
Coastal Fog: Connecting the Atmosphere, Ocean, Land, and Society
Session ID#: 249982
Session Description:
Coastal fog and low stratus clouds connect Earth systems in its formation and impacts on the biogeochemistry, hydrology, and thermodynamics of ecosystems. For example, as coastal fog moves through terrestrial ecosystems, it deposits water, shades the surface, and transports aerosols, all of which impact ecosystem function and surface processes. Society is also influenced by coastal fog through its effects on systems such as agriculture, transportation, renewable energy, and human health. This session explores the recent advances in our understanding of coastal fog as a system, its impacts on ecosystems, and examines future changes in coastal fog and low stratiform clouds. We welcome submissions on observations, modeling, and theory, especially those exploring interdisciplinary research and connecting research with the needs and interests of a wide-range of partners and community members.
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Index Terms:
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Sara A Baguskas, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
Conveners: Rachel E. S. Clemesha, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States and Travis Allen O'Brien, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Sonya Rauschenbach, University of California Davis, Atmospheric Science Graduate Group, Davis, United States
Modelling fog harvesting across time, space and landscapes: the AMARU models´ principle, validation and applications (Invited) (1884207)
Felipe Lobos Roco1, Klaus Keim Vera2, Camilo del Río3, Jorge Herrera2, Nathalie Vergbrugghe4, Virginia Carter5 and Francisco Suárez-Poch2, (1)Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Agronomia y Sistemas Naturales, Santiago, Chile, (2)Centro UC Desierto de Atacama, Santiago, Chile, (3)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Geography, Santiago, Chile, (4)Building, Architecture and Town Planning Department (BATir), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, (5)Escuela de Gobierno y Administración Pública, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Artes, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile
Observed Fog and Low Cloud Cover along the North American West Coast: Long-Term Trends, Variability, and Interactions with Marine and Terrestrial Heat Waves (1901564)
Rachel E. S. Clemesha1, Ian Campbell1, Alexander Weyant1 and Travis Allen O'Brien2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (2)Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States
Microbial viability in Pacific coastal fog water (1934914)
Peter Scott Weiss-Penzias, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Eyal Rahav, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel, Sara A Baguskas, San Francisco State University, Geography & Environment, San Francisco, CA, United States, Andrew J Oliphant, San Francisco State University, School of the Environment, San Francisco, CA, United States, Daniel Fernandez, California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, United States, Rachel E. S. Clemesha, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Travis Allen O'Brien, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Towards a fog drip flux parameterization in RegCM5 (1953586)
Travis Allen O'Brien, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, United States, Sinclaire Zebaze, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Rachel E. S. Clemesha, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Sara A Baguskas, San Francisco State University, Geography & Environment, San Francisco, CA, United States, Peter Scott Weiss-Penzias, University California Santa Cr, Santa Cruz, United States and Daniel Fernandez, California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, United States
Coupling Satellite Observations and Machine Learning to Predict Future Fog Prevalence Along the Coast Redwood Range (1956977)
Paul Seibert, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, Aubrey Palmer, Mississippi State University, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State, United States, Macey Hartmann, University of California Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies, Santa Barbara, United States, David Wilcox, University of Oregon, Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States and Kathleen Miller, Analytical Mechanics Associates (AMA), Hampton, United States
The influence of synoptic weather disturbances on summer fog frequency over the California coast (1958088)
Sinclaire Zebaze, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States and Rachel E. S. Clemesha, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Illuminating Arctic Fog: Determining Surface-Level Cloud Phase and Extent with In Situ and Remote Sensing Measurements (1975864)
Sonya Rauschenbach1, Nathan Hexum Pope1, Adele L Igel2 and Nathan Hexum Pope, (1)University of California Davis, Atmospheric Science Graduate Group, Davis, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States
Fog interception by forest to promote a Nature based Solution strategy in semi-arid coastal basins (1998333)
David Poblete1,2, Sebastian Vicuna2,3, Felipe Lobos Roco4 and Alvaro Gutierrez5, (1)Universidad de Valparaíso, School of Civil Engineering, Valparaíso, Chile, (2)Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, Santiago, Chile, (3)Centro de Cambio Global UC, Santiago, Chile, (4)Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Agronomia y Sistemas Naturales, Santiago, Chile, (5)Universdad de Chile, Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales Renovables, Santiago, Chile
Surface microclimates and plant functioning associated with fog and low cloud cover in coastal California. (2004078)
Andrew J Oliphant1, Sara A Baguskas2, Kapewa Hopfe3 and Jessica Solis3, (1)San Francisco State University, School of the Environment, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)San Francisco State University, Geography & Environment, San Francisco, CA, United States, (3)San Francisco State University, School of the Environment, San Francisco, United States
