Numerical Simulations of Fog Events in Southern Portugal

Table 2

Adopted features for the final Meso-NH simulations.

Domain	D1	D2
Discretization	Nx = Ny = 150; Dx = Dy = 3 km	Nx = Ny = 120; Dx = Dy = 1 km
	Nz = 55 (sigma coordinates); Dz (5 m) = 10 m; Dz (500 m) = 50 m; Dz (5 km) = 650 m; Dz (25 km) = 2000 m
	Dt = 6 s	Dt = 2 s
Central point	Latitude: 38° 00′ N; longitude: 008° 00′ W	Latitude: 38° 22′ N; longitude: 007° 36′ W
Surface-atmosphere interactions.	ISBA [20]; TEB [21]; ECUME [22]; Flake [23]
Physics schemes	Radiation: ECMWF [24]; Turbulence: Quasi-1D (on the vertical) [25]Clouds microphysics: ICE3 [26]; No convection
Horizontal visibility	Kunkel [27]