Abstract

It is demonstrated that measuring extinction coefficients at frequent time intervals enables one to observe fog-evolution processes in which the infrared and visible extinction coefficients are well correlated. Less-frequent measurements can lead to erroneous interpretations.

© 1982 Optical Society of America

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