Some observations on the formation of mists in particular situations
Humphry Davy · Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London · 1833
Abstract The author shows, in this paper, that after sunset the fall of temperature that ensues upon the earth’s surface is considerably greater on land than in water, and refers to the well-known peculiarity in the expansibility of water, at temperatures below 40°, for the cause of its superior temperature and that of the air above it. When, therefore, the cold and comparatively dry air of the land mixes with the warmer and damper air that rests upon the water, the diminution of the temperature of the latter, occasioned by this mixture, tends to separate a portion of its moisture, and consequently to produce mist.