Coastal fog

Coastal fog, barely coming ashore near Alison Glacier.  The Baffin Bay shoreline of northwest Greenland is affected by fog much of the time during spring and summer.  Occasionally a light offshore wind develops (usually due to an approaching low-pressure system from the south) which drives the fog offshore, as it did for most of the region today.

Credits
NASA/John Sonntag
Subject
Other
Mission
OIB

 

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