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Fog drip
precipitation
Learn about how the fog in the Atacama Desert of Chile irrigates Chañaral provinceIn the Atacama Desert of Chile, fresh water is extracted from fog and used to irrigate crops of Aloe vera in Chañaral province.
See all videos for this articleFog drip, water that drips to the ground from trees and other objects wetted by drifting fog droplets. The needle-shaped leaves of conifers are efficient fog droplet collectors, and fog drip in mountainous regions may supply enough water to maintain forests. During the foggy but nearly rainless summers in California, fog drip may produce as much as one millimetre of precipitated water in a single night.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Robert Lewis.
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