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Sea breeze
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TL;DR: This paper examined the past 23 years of ground-level O3 data and selected meteorological parameters in Houston, Texas, which historically has been one of the most polluted cities in the United States.
Abstract: We examined the past 23 years of ground-level O3 data and selected meteorological parameters in Houston, Texas, which historically has been one of the most polluted cities in the United States. Both 1-h and 8-h O3 exceedances have been reduced significantly down to single digit yearly occurrences. We also found that the frequency of southerly flow has increased by a factor of ~2.5 over the period 1990-2013, likely suppressing O3 photochemistry and leading to a "cleaner" Houston environment. The sea breeze was enhanced greatly from 1990 to 2013 due to increasing land surface temperatures, increased pressure gradients, and slightly stronger on-shore winds. These patterns driven by climate change produce a strengthening of the sea breeze, which should be a general result at locations worldwide.
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TL;DR: Measurements of aerosol particles in a coastal city in southeast Mexico show that the concentrations and optical properties are strongly linked to land and sea breezes and the uptake of water vapor onto unactivated particles is the process that dominates the growth of particles.
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TL;DR: In this article, a method of identifying sea-breeze fronts by remote sensing (visible and infrared data from the GOES-8 satellite) was applied to north-eastern Brazil.
Abstract: A method of identifying sea-breeze fronts by remote sensing (visible and infrared data from the GOES-8 satellite) was applied to north-eastern Brazil. The aim of the study was to estimate the frequency of observed sea-breeze fronts and the average distance they penetrate inland at 1800 UTC. During the dry season (between September and December) in 2000, the highest frequency of sea-breeze fronts was recorded on the northern fringe of the study area. The sea-breeze fronts penetrated furthest inland between September and November, with a maximum distance from the coast at Ceara of 100 km. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors relate nearshore ripple behavior to cyclic changes in hydrodynamic conditions due to a sea breeze and propose that ripple migration direction is a function of the balance between onshore cross-shore velocity asymmetry and offshore mean flow.
Abstract: This paper relates nearshore ripple behaviour to cyclic changes in hydrodynamic conditions due to a sea breeze. Simultaneous time series measurements of waves, currents, sediment suspension and ripple crest positions were obtained from the nearshore of a micro-tidal low energy beach in southwestern Australia during two diurnal sea breeze cycles. Large parallel ripples with wavelengths of 0.3m-1.2m and heights of 0.05m-0.15m were present in coarse sand for the duration of observations. Mean ripple wavelengths and migration rates were measured at half hour intervals. During the sea breeze, wave height increased and wave period decreased with the addition of locally generated, short period wind waves on the incident swell waves. As a result, mean offshore flow (undertow) increased and cross-shore asymmetry decreased. Ripple wavelength increased during the sea breeze in proportion to the nearbed orbital diameter. Ripple wavelength remained relatively constant, except for a slight decreasing trend, with respect to the varying near-bed orbital diameter during the swell-dominated periods before and after the sea breeze suggesting the presence of suborbital ripples. Ripples migrated onshore during the swell-dominated period find offshore during the sea breeze. It is proposed that the ripple migration direction is a function of the balance between onshore cross-shore velocity asymmetry and offshore mean flow. Increased sediment suspension concentration during the sea breeze resulted in an increase in the amount of sand available for transport by the larger mean offshore flow providing a mechanism for the offshore migration of ripples.
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