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Basic science, water resources, and future change
A multi-institutional research project funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation
This project aims to create a holistic understanding of fog and low cloud cover (FLCC). We are motivated by a desire to enhance society’s ability to manage coastal resources and steward coastal ecosystems in a changing climate.
This project aims to create a holistic understanding of fog and low cloud cover (FLCC). We are motivated by a desire to enhance society’s ability to manage coastal resources and steward coastal ecosystems in a changing climate.
This work will empowercoastal California communities to build climate resilience by delivering actionable science on changing coastal fog projections and their localized ecological consequences, and it will serve as a model for areas of the world where fog has been understudied. Our proposed work will forge new understanding of both the changing microclimate characteristics produced by coastal fog, and the impacts on ecosystem functioning, including ecosystem atmosphere flows of energy, water and carbon. It will also provide high-level observational data to drive and validate modeling work on fog weather & climate prediction, as well as the feedback response of ecosystems in a changing coastal fog regime.
Major research questions to be addressed by this project
Major research questions to be addressed by this project
Water Resources
How much fog water is available for natural and human systems?
How does fog water availability vary in space and time?
What controls the efficiency of fog water capture?
Future Change
How will the frequency of fog change? What about the fog water flux?
How will the spatial footprint of fog and its seasonal cycle change?
How will changing fog impact carbon and water balances in wildland and human-altered ecosystems?
Basic Science
What is in fog? Are there constituents (chemical, microbial) that should be a concern?
How predictable is fog: at weather timescales, seasonal timescales, decadal timescales, and beyond?
Project Descriptions
Project Descriptions
Predict the future of fog.
PI: T. A. O'Brien
Connect changes in fog to regional and global scale trends.
PI: R. E. S. Clemesha
Characterize the physical, chemical, and biological constituents of fog.
PI: P. S. Weiss-Penzias
Assess ecological and agricultural vulnerabilities that relate to fog.
PI: S.A. Baguskas
Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!
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B027 - Coastal Fog: Connecting the Atmosphere, Ocean, Land, and Society
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