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Observations & remote sensing

Towards a climatology of fog frequency in the Atacama Desert via multi-spectral satellite data and machine learning techniques

Christoph Böhm, Jan H. Schween, Mark Reyers, Benedikt Maier, Ulrich Löhnert, Susanne Crewell

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology · · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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In one sentence. A neural network on MODIS brightness temperatures detects Atacama Desert fog better than a cloud-height method (Heidke skill 0.56 vs 0.49), enabling a fog frequency climatology.

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Topic
Observations & remote sensing, Climate analysis & attribution
Type
New model or method
Method
Classical ML (trees, GP, linear, kernels)
Time scale
Seasonal to annual
Domain
Regional
Data
Satellite, Station / in-situ
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1175/jamc-d-20-0208.1 OpenAlex:W3176287638
Added
2026-10-22

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