Sea fog is one of the main types of dangerous weather affecting offshore operations. The sea surface temperature (SST) has an important influence on the water vapor content and intensity of sea fog. In order to study the impact of SST on local relative humidity and atmospheric visibility, a sea fog episode that occurred over the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea on 21 January 2013 was investigated through observational data, reanalysis data, and Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulation. The results show that the influence of SST on the distribution of sea fog with different properties is inconsistent. Based on the time-varying equation of relative humidity, the changes in the advection, radiation, and turbulence effects on the relative humidity with respect to SST are explored through control and sensitivity experiments. The results show that the advection effect plays a decisive role in the generation and dissipation stages of sea fog. The increase (decrease) in SST weakens (strengthens) the radiative cooling and relative humidity. The contribution magnitude of advection effect to relative humidity is 10⁻⁵, while those of radiation and turbulence are 10⁻⁶ and 10⁻⁷, respectively. The atmospheric visibilities in the Bohai Sea and northern Yellow Sea decrease with increasing SST, which are mainly affected by the positive turbulence effect; whereas the atmospheric visibility in the central and southern Yellow Sea increases with SST, which is mainly influenced by the combined effects of U-direction advection, radiation, and turbulence. The stability related to boundary layer height plays an important role in water vapor condensation.

The numerical weather prediction (NWP) model about marine meteorological disasters requires sea surface temperature (SST) data which represents the parameters of marine dynamic process. However, the SST data of high spatial-temporal resolution are scarce in Huang Bohai sea in China. In order to acquire the high resolution SST data, the authors try to retrieve the high resolution SST data in Huang Bohai sea with FY2G-based satellite data. Moreover, the data differences of the satellite retrieval data with both buoys observation SST and NCEP optimal interpolation SST are compared, respectively, in terms of the statistical analysis method. Meanwhile the statistical equations are determined about the satellite retrieval SST with observed SST and of optimal interpolation SST. The equations are referred as a standard of data quality control equations when the differences of the revised values of the statistical equations and satellite inversion are calculated. While the data fusion is done, authors retain the data that the differences of the satellite retrieval SST and the statistical equation are less than 3.0°C. Above method could make that the satellite SST space characteristic information is merged into weekly average optimal interpolation SST data, and it improves SST spatial-temporal resolution in Huang Bohai sea. The work lays a foundation for numerical models using the high resolution SST in Huang Bohai area.