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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 analysis shows the sea-breeze front to be primarily a wind shift line in which the thermal discontinuity lags behind the shear line and becomes quasi-stationary in the afternoon.
Abstract: Three-dimensional analysis shows the sea-breeze front to be primarily a wind shift line in which the thermal discontinuity lags behind the shear line and becomes quasi-stationary in the afternoon. Two synoptic patterns control the temperature regime. On cool days, when a high level trough is present the sea-breeze front is weak, moves rapidly and penetrates far inland; the marine layer is deep and the sea breeze spills over the low mountain ridges. Warm days occur, when the Pacific high penetrates into Oregon and Washington; the marine layer is shallow and the sea-breeze front is intense and slow moving.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make use of industry data from 44 wind farms, including 11 offshore wind farms and 19 onshore wind farms located in farmland and 14 wind farms in forested areas with a total capacity of 1190MW installed actual wind farms to test four hypotheses based on preconceptions identified in a literature review.
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TL;DR: In this article, a study of the measured pressure gradient and wind velocities from southern England is shown that topographical influences can often be responsible for cyclonic rotation, rather than the expected anticyclonic.
Abstract: Simple mathematical theory suggests that the direction of the sea breeze must veer (move in an anticyclonic sense) during the day, until it is blowing parallel to the coast. Many observations of sea-breeze hodographs have shown that this rotation often does not occur and may sometimes be in the opposite (cyclonic) direction. Papers by Neumann and coworkers showed that either anticyclonic or cyclonic rotation could result from suitable combinations of Coriolis force and pressure gradient. Some observed examples of such cyclonic rotation are explained in the shift of direction from a “local sea breeze” to a “continental sea breeze” of a different direction; the strong pressure gradients associated with mountains can also produce cyclonic rotation. A study of the measured pressure gradient and wind velocities from southern England are shown to agree with the analysis of Neumann. It is concluded that topographical influences can often be responsible for cyclonic, rather than the expected anticyclonic...
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TL;DR: A detailed examination of the global reanalysis data suggests that this local landsea breeze circulation apparently couples with the global-scale diurnal atmospheric pressure tide to produce a planetary-scale land-sea breeze with a spatial scale of ∼1000 km over the western North Pacific.
Abstract: The diurnal wind variation over the East Asian continent is commonly considered to be a combination of a land-sea breeze near the coast and a mountain –valley breeze along the slopes of the Tibetan Plateau. The local land –sea breeze along the coastline typically spans <100 km into the ocean. However, a detailed examination of the global reanalysis data suggests that this local land –sea breeze circulation apparently couples with the global-scale diurnal atmospheric pressure tide to produce a planetary-scale land –sea breeze with a spatial scale of ∼1000 km over the western North Pacific. Computations of the momentum budget and equivalent potential temperatures indicate that the atmospheric diurnal tidal wave contributes the most to this circulation feature. A diagnosis of the water vapour budget further suggests that the convergence of water vapour flux, which is related to the convergence of low-level wind induced by the seasonal change of diurnal tidal wave, leads to different times of occurrence of maximum diurnal rainfall over East Asia between summer and winter. Copyright c
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TL;DR: In this article, the spatial distribution of potential recirculation over the East Mediterranean Sea, and the combined effect of synoptic and meso-scale recirculations on plume dispersion in the region are examined.
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