{"id":2542,"date":"2009-05-12T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2009-05-20T18:27:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T18:27:35","slug":"valley-fog-in-the-southern-appalachian-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/2542","title":{"rendered":"Valley fog in the southern Appalachian Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/05\/090512_modis_goes_fog_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-km MODIS vs 4-km GOES-12 fog\/stratus product\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/05\/090512_modis_goes_fog_anim.gif\" alt=\"1-km MODIS vs 4-km GOES-12 fog\/stratus product\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-km MODIS vs 4-km GOES-12 fog\/stratus product<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS fog\/stratus product and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 fog\/stratus product <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> demonstrate the advantage of higher spatial resolution for the detection of widespread small-scale fingers of valley fog that had formed during the overnight hours over much of the southern Appalachian Mountains states on <a title=\"12 May 2009 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20090512.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>12 May 2009<\/strong><\/a>. This region had received heavy precipitation during the preceding week which led to major flooding &#8212; as a result the soil moisture was quite high,  enhancing the potential for radiation fog formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS fog\/stratus product and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 fog\/stratus product (above) demonstrate the advantage of higher spatial resolution for the detection of widespread small-scale fingers of valley fog that had formed during the overnight hours over much of the southern Appalachian Mountains states on 12 May 2009. This region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fog-detection","category-goes-12"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}