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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, three-dimensional meteorological simulations have been conducted to investigate the potential impact of urban surface characteristic modifications on local climate, and the results from these simulations indicate a potential to reduce urban energy demand and atmospheric pollution by 5%10% through application of reasonable surface modifications.
Abstract: Three-dimensional meteorological simulations have been conducted to investigate the potential impact of urban surface characteristic modifications on local climate. Results for a base case simulation for the Los Angeles basin are compared to results from cases in which urban albedo or vegetative cover are increased. The methodology for determining the distribution and magnitude of these simulated surface modifications is presented. Increasing albedo over downtown Los Angeles by 0.14 and over the entire basin by an average of 0.08 decreased peak summertime temperatures by as much as 1.5°C. This level of albedo augmentation also lowered boundary layer heights by more than 50 m and reduced the magnitude and penetration of the sea breeze. A second simulation, in which vegetative cover was increased, showed qualitatively similar impacts. The results from these simulations indicate a potential to reduce urban energy demand and atmospheric pollution by 5%10% through application of reasonable surface mo...
220 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-dimensional meteorological model is used to simulate air flow patterns and pollutant transport in the Los Angeles basin under such conditions, and complex simulated flows are analyzed to explain the origin of the observed pollution layers.
216 citations
TL;DR: The MECAPIP project of EC has served to document the summer atmospheric circulations and related air pollution dynamics over Spain and the Western Mediterranean as mentioned in this paper, and experimental evidence indicates that during the day the sea breezes can transport ozone 60 to 100, or more, km inland, during the afternoon, photo-oxidants are injected 3 to 5 km into the mid-troposphere over the Spanish Central plateau, and stratified reservoir layers, stacked up to ≈2-3 km high, build up along the Mediterranean coast.
205 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the sea-breeze on photochemical pollution in Athens, Greece is analyzed. But the authors focus on two typical days in August 1981 with well-defined sea breeze circulation and conclude that no day-to-day pollution accumulation is noticed.
203 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a next generation mesoscale model, Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with the Noah land surface model and Urban Canopy model (UCM), was used to evaluate the impacts of urbanization and UHI effect over northern Taiwan.
199 citations