Trends in winter fog events in the Terai region of Nepal

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Funding Acknowledgements

The lead author (S Shrestha) is thankful to the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) for providing the John Alright Fellowship (JAF) to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne. Murray Peel is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT120100130). We acknowledge the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) for providing access to the METAR datasheets of Terai stations. Similarly, we would like to thank Er. Sanjeet Kumar Jha, Er. Bikash KC, and Er. Mukti Nath Jha of the Agricultural Engineering Division, Nepal Agriculture Research Council (NARC) for assisting the first author in transcribing the fog data. Thanks also to Dr. Anne Verhoef, Associate Editor, and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions in improving the manuscript.