Vertical profiles of liquid water content in fog layers during the SOFOG3D experiment

Costabloz, Théophane; Burnet, Frédéric; Lac, Christine; Martinet, Pauline; Delanoë, Julien; Jorquera, Susana; Fathalli, Maroua

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6539-2025

Articles | Volume 25, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6539-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6539-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 12

Research article

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30 Jun 2025

Research article |

| 30 Jun 2025

Vertical profiles of liquid water content in fog layers during the SOFOG3D experiment

Théophane Costabloz, Frédéric Burnet, Christine Lac, Pauline Martinet, Julien Delanoë, Susana Jorquera, and Maroua Fathalli

Data sets

SOFOG3D_CHARBONNIERE_CNRM_TETHERED-BALLOON-MTO-10S_L2 G. Canut https://doi.org/10.25326/89

SOFOG3D_CHARBONNIERE_LATMOS_BASTA-vertical_L2a J. Delanoë https://doi.org/10.25326/134

SOFOG3D_CHARBONNIERE_CNRM_MWR-HATPRO-LWP_L2 P. Martinet https://doi.org/10.25326/207

Short summary

This study documents vertical profiles of liquid water content (LWC) in fogs from in situ measurements collected during the SOFOG3D field campaign in 2019–2020. The analysis of 140 vertical profiles reveals a reverse trend in LWC, maximum values at ground decreasing with height, during stable conditions in optically thin fogs, evolving towards quasi-adiabatic characteristics when fogs become thick. These results offer new perspectives for better constraining fog numerical simulations.