( Alaska , 2012)
Sea soaring or smoking is a type of marine fog-like vapors that occur during the rapid condensation of warm water vapor in cold air over wormwood, scoops or over the surface of sea ice [1] [2] .
The evaporation rate varies greatly, but, as a rule, it covers only a thin surface layer of air (from 3 to 30 meters above the water surface) [1] .
Vaping of the sea surface is often observed in winter in the Arctic and Antarctic regions [1] , which leads to icing of watercraft and creates difficult conditions for navigation [2] . However, cases of its manifestation are also known at low latitudes, for example, off the coast of Greece and east of Cape Hatteras , in situations of invasion of cold air masses to the south, when the temperature difference between water and air reaches 13-25 ° C [1] . In the European territory of the former USSR, sea soaring in addition to polar regions was also recorded in the Black and Azov Seas [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Soaring of the Sea // Marine Encyclopedic Reference / Ed. N. N. Isanina . - Leningrad: Shipbuilding, 1987. - T. 2. - S. 53. - 520 p. - 30,000 copies.
- ↑ Zubkov A., Stekhnovsky D., Petrovsky Yu. S. § 11. Fogs // Navigation hydrometeorology. - Moscow: Transport, 1971.
Links
- Soaring of the sea . http://enc.biblioclub.ru . Date of appeal October 30, 2017.