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Which process clears radiation fog in the morning?

  • A.Solar heating of the ground beneath the fog
  • B.The advection of drier air from the surrounding region, which reduces the humidity below saturation again
  • C.Increased radiative cooling
  • D.The settling of the fog droplets under gravity once they have grown large enough to fall out of the layer

Answer: A

Sunlight penetrates the fog and heats the ground, which then warms the air from below, mixing the fog upward until it evaporates. Dense fog reflects much of the sunlight and so persists longer, which is why some winter fogs survive the whole day. Droplet settling is far too slow to clear a fog layer, and drier air arriving from elsewhere would be a change of air mass rather than a clearance of the existing one. The quantity that varies and the quantity that does not are worth naming before any substitution is attempted.

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