RANDOLPH AFB, Texas, Oct. 9 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news release:

In 2025, the Air Force Institute of Technology's Engineering Physics Department and Center for Directed Energy (ENP/CDE) participated in a multi-university campaign to uncover the dynamics of fog in the Arctic. This research can be applied to any low-flying air-based Air Force mission that requires accurate weather forecasting in locations that experience freezing fog and ice fog.

Led by the University of Notre Dame, the goal of the campaign, known as FATIMA-IF (Fog and Turbulence Interactions in a Marine Atmosphere - Ice Fog), was to uncover the mechanisms underlying the formation of freezing fog and ice fog and to bett...