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Redwood Fog
Redwood Fog
The Earth's tallest trees, California redwoods, rely on characteristic coastal fog to reach their towering heights. Because fog appears as a cloud that moves off the ocean and sits on the ground, airport monitors of the ceiling height of the clouds were particularly illuminating. Fog drip is water dripping to the ground during fog. It occurs when water droplets from the fog adhere to the needles or leaves of trees or other objects, coalesce into larger drops and then drop to the ground. In the Age of the Dinosaurs, redwood species were dominant over much of the Northern Hemisphere, including what is now the Arctic. The climate was then humid and mild over a much larger region than today. Over millennia climate change reduced redwood habitat. The passage of warm, moist marine air over the cold surface waters of the Pacific creates fog here almost daily in summer. It frequently lasts until afternoon, when it burns off. Another fog bank may move in before sunset. Coast redwoods are distributed along a narrow band of California's northern coast. Already, coastal redwoods at the inland edge of the forest as well as the tops of the trees in the southern part of the range are suffering. Regardless, the iconic California redwood forests may ultimately break up with the evanescing coastal fogs. The life span of the redwoods is 500 to 700 years. Redwood is a rapidly growing tree, and some individual trees have been measured at more than 360 feet in height, making it the tallest measured tree species on the earth. In favorable situations, trees 20 years old may average 50 feet in height and 8 inches in diameter. Average mature trees are from 200 to 240 feet high with diameters of 10 to 15 feet at 4 feet 8 inches above the ground
