The worldwide socio-economic impact resulting from fog is just as significant as from other extreme events such as storms. Indeed, fog may be responsible for severe disruptions at airports (delays or cancellations of flights), causes frequent road accidents, and may impact rescue management as well as military operations. Therefore, accurate forecasting of fog is essential.

The WG2 subgroup on fog alerts invites anyone interested in the near real-time analysis of fog events to join this PROBE meeting. The goal of this meeting is to have an overview of the running fog alert tools that are based upon ground-based observations and initiate collaborations on the topic.

The meeting agenda will be as follows:

   1. Each participant will be invited to quickly introduce him-/herself and his-/her organization, as well as potential needs about fog nowcasting.
      2. Presentation of PARAFOG: a near real-time decision tool to support nowcasting fog formation events at local scales.
      3. Strategy to deploy and test PARAFOG tool through the COST-PROBE network. Highlight from the work already done in Romania to adapt and run PARAFOG (to be confirmed).
      4. Presentation of other fog detection and retrieval algorithms, and open discussion on new developments

Meeting information:

link for participation online: https://bluejeans.com/789185150/7868?src=join_info

Meeting ID: 789 185 150

Password: 7868