Pacific Coastal Fog Research

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.