File:California (MODIS 2017-08-20).jpg

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Thick fingers of fog were reaching over San Francisco Bay on August 12, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite flew overhead and acquired a true-color image of the scene.

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English: Thick fingers of fog were reaching over San Francisco Bay on August 12, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite flew overhead and acquired a true-color image of the scene. The image clearly shows that the fog is a part of the marine layer – a mass of cool, dense air from the ocean that becomes sandwiched beneath a layer of warm air as part of a temperature inversion. Intrusions of the marine layer – and the accompanying fog and clouds – are common in San Francisco in the summer. This is caused by westerly breezes that push cold air inland to replace the warm air rising from California’s Central Valley.
Date Taken on 12 August 2017
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Author Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
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