Multiple meteorological and oceanographic studies confirm that sea surface temperature plays a critical role in driving marine boundary layer dynamics, allowing fog incidence to be accurately modeled and estimated using thermal data.
The retrieved papers provide robust, specific evidence (papers [3], [4], [5], [10], and [11]) showing that sea surface temperature (SST) is a key driver of marine fog formation and that incorporating SST data into numerical or machine learning models substantially improves fog prediction accuracy. There are no papers contradicting this relationship.