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Sea breeze
About: Sea breeze is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2544 publications have been published within this topic receiving 55651 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the potential for solar and wind energy resources to meet climate change mitigation requirements and assesses the ability of the GCC region to shift towards low-carbon technologies.
Abstract: Climate change mitigation is one of the most critical challenges of this century. The unprecedented global effects of climate change are wide-ranging, including changing weather patterns that threaten food production, increased risk of catastrophic floods, and rising sea levels. Adapting to these impacts will be more difficult and costly in the future if radical changes are not made now. This review paper evaluates the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries’ potential for solar and wind energy resources to meet climate change mitigation requirements and assesses the ability of the GCC region to shift towards low-carbon technologies. The review demonstrates that the GCC region is characterized by abundant solar energy resources. The northwestern, southeastern, and western mountains of the region are highlighted as locations for solar energy application. Oman displays the highest onshore wind speed range, 3–6.3 m s⁻1, and has the highest annual solar radiation of up to 2500 kWh/m2. Kuwait has the second highest onshore wind speed range of 4.5–5.5 m s⁻1. The western mountains and northwestern Saudi Arabia have a wind speed range of 3–6 m s⁻1. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the second highest annual solar radiation, 2285 kWh/m2, while Saudi Arabia and the state of Kuwait have equal annual solar radiation at 2200 kWh/m2. This review demonstrates that abundant offshore wind energy resources were observed along the coastal areas of the Arabian Gulf, as well as a potential opportunity for wind energy resource development in the Red Sea, which was characterized by high performance. In addition, the GCC countries will not be able to control and address the interrelated issues of climate change in the future if they do not eliminate fossil fuel consumption, adhere to the Paris Agreement, and implement plans to utilize their natural resources to meet these challenges.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the mid-and long-term evolution of wind energy resources in North America by means of a multi-model ensemble selected from 18 global climate models.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the possibility that vegetation changes over much smaller areas may affect local precipitation regimes and showed that large scale irrigated plantations in semi-arid environments under particular conditions might affect local circulations and induce additional rainfall, which could then reduce the need for external irrigation sources and eventually lead to self-sustained water cycling.
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TL;DR: Findings suggest crustal particles and salts carried or stirred by sea breeze winds from a southerly and southeasterly direction from the Gulf of Mexico heavily influenced the elemental composition of the particulate samples.
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TL;DR: In this article, a laboratory experiment has been performed to simulate land and sea breeze (LSB) flows occurring in the atmosphere in the absence of a mean geostrophic wind (pure breeze).
Abstract: A laboratory experiment has been performed to simulate land and sea breeze (LSB) flows occurring in the atmosphere in the absence of a mean geostrophic wind (pure breeze). The experiment has been carried out in a temperature-controlled water tank. Three CCD video cameras have been utilised to acquire the images of the flow field produced by temperature gradients. Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is applied to evaluate the velocity field in a vertical section of the tank illuminated by a laser light sheet. Furthermore, temperature–time histories have been carried out by means of a thermocouple array positioned along a vertical profile. The system has been employed to generate and analyse the global circulation and the dynamics of the sea breeze front.
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