what is the difference between fog and clouds?

Answer 1

Fog :
Fog is a cloud in contact with the ground. Fog differs from other clouds only in that fog touches the surface of the Earth. The same cloud that is not fog on lower ground may be fog where it contacts higher ground such as hilltops or mountain ridges.


Cloud :
A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology in which clouds are studied is nephology.

On Earth, the condensing substance is water vapor, which forms small droplets of water (typically 0.01 mm of ice crystals) that, when surrounded with billions of other droplets or crystals, are visible as clouds. Dense deep clouds exhibit a high reflectance (70 to 95%) throughout the visible range of wavelengths: they thus appear white, at least from the top. Cloud droplets tend to scatter light very efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the cloud, hence the grey or even sometimes dark appearance of the clouds at their base. Thin clouds may appear to have acquired the color of their environment or background, and clouds illuminated by non-white light, such as during sunrise or sunset, may be colored accordingly. In the near-infrared range, however, clouds would appear very dark because the water that constitutes the cloud droplets strongly absorb solar radiation at these wavelengths.

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Answer 2

Fog is a cloud in contact with the ground. Fog differs from other clouds only in that fog touches the surface of the Earth. The same cloud that is not fog on lower ground may be fog where it contacts higher ground such as hilltops or mountain ridges.

Answer 3

Fog is a cloud on the ground.

Answer 4

Fog is a state of weather when there are tiny drops of water in the air which in turn form a thick cloud and visibility in that kind of weather becomes poor.
Whereas, cloud is a state of weather when there is a mass of water vapour floating in the sky - white or grey in colour.

Answer 5

fog is just a cloud that is touching the ground.

Answer 6

Fog is a suspension which is formed near earth's surface due to low atmpspheric temp. in winter.The moisture in air at low temp. condenses & forms a suspension along with dust in atmosphere called fog.
Cloud is at a much greater height and its pure water vapour which move around with wind.When they r raised to a certain ht. due to wind they condense and fall as rain.

Answer 7

Location, location, location.