Getting a Bit Closer

Visible Satellite Image, GOES 9, 1 km Resolution, 1845 UTC, 8/12/97

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This image emphasizes the fact that the coastline is somehow a limiting factor on the cloud pattern we often see in the Eastern Pacific during the summer.

1.  Does the image suggest something about the DEPTH of the foggy layer? How and why?

2.  Are there patterns discernible in the fog mass?  Describe them.

Click here to see a closeup of the Bay Area at the same time