Climate‐Driven Characteristics of Sea‐Land Breezes Over the Globe

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lixing Shen ◽  
Chuanfeng Zhao ◽  
Xingchuan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Land Breezes

A study of sea and land breezes in an archipelago on the west coast of Sweden

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 785-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Gustavsson ◽  
S. Lindqvist ◽  
K. Borne ◽  
J. Bogren
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
The West ◽  
Land Breezes

Operating ranges of mesoscale numerical models and meteorological wind tunnels for the simulation of sea and land breezes

1990 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 227-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Avissar ◽  
M. D. Moran ◽  
G. Wu ◽  
R. N. Meroney ◽  
R. A. Pielke
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Models ◽  
Wind Tunnels ◽  
Land Breezes

Interaction of the Vertical Profile of Dust Aerosols with Land/sea Breezes over the Eastern Coast of the Red Sea from LIDAR and High-resolution WRF-Chem Simulations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sagar Parajuli ◽  
Georgiy Stenchikov ◽  
Alexander Ukhov ◽  
Illia Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Vertical Profile ◽  
Lidar Data ◽  
Aerosol Extinction ◽  
Vertical Profiles ◽  
Sea Breezes ◽  
Dust Emissions ◽  
Dust Aerosols ◽  
Land Breezes

<p>With the advances in modeling approaches, and the application of satellite and ground-based data in dust-related research, our understanding of the dust cycle is significantly improved in recent decades. However, two aspects of the dust cycle, the vertical profiles and diurnal cycles of dust aerosols have not been understood adequately, mainly due to the sparsity of observations. A micro-pulse LIDAR has been operating at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) campus located on the east coast of the Red Sea (22.3N, 39.1E), measuring the backscattering from atmospheric aerosols at a high temporal resolution for several years since 2015. It is the only operating LIDAR system over the Arabian Peninsula. We use this LIDAR data together with other collocated observations and high-resolution WRF-Chem model simulations to study the 3-d structure of aerosols, with a focus on dust over the Red Sea Arabian coastal plains. </p><p>Firstly, we investigate the vertical profiles of aerosol extinction and concentration in terms of their seasonal and diurnal variability. Secondly, using the hourly model output and observations, we study the diurnal cycle of aerosols over the site. Thirdly, we explore the interactions between dust aerosols and land/sea breezes, which are the critical components of the local diurnal circulation in the region. </p><p>We found a substantial variation in the vertical profile of aerosols in different seasons. There is also a marked difference in the daytime and nighttime vertical distribution of aerosols in the study site, as shown by LIDAR data. A prominent dust layer is observed at ~5-7km at night in the LIDAR data, corresponding to the long-range transported dust of non-local origin. The vertical profiles of aerosol extinction are consistently reproduced in LIDAR, MERRA-2 reanalysis, and CALIOP data, as well as in WRF-Chem simulations in all seasons. Our results show that the sea breezes are much deeper (~1km) than the land breezes (~200m), and both of them prominently affect the distribution of dust aerosols over the study site. Sea breezes mainly trap the dust aerosols near the coast, brought by the northeasterly trade winds from inland deserts, causing elevated dust maxima at the height of ~1.5km. Also, sea and land breezes intensify dust emissions from the coastal region in daytime and nighttime, respectively. Such dust emissions caused by sea breezes and land breezes are most active in spring and winter. Finally, WRF-Chem successfully captures the onset, demise, and the height of some large-scale dust events as compared to LIDAR data qualitatively. </p>

Impact of sea-land breezes on 210Pb in southern Iberian Peninsula – Feasibility study on using submicron-sized aerosol particles to analyze 210Pb hourly patterns

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Hernández-Ceballos ◽  
M. Sorribas ◽  
E.G. San Miguel ◽  
G. Cinelli ◽  
J.A. Adame ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Aerosol Particles ◽  
Land Breezes

Simulation of the sea- and land-breezes in Athens

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 473-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Moussiopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Land Breezes

A 7-Yr Climatological Study of Land Breezes over the Florida Spaceport

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan L. Case ◽  
Mark M. Wheeler ◽  
John Manobianco ◽  
Johnny W. Weems ◽  
William P. Roeder
Keyword(s):  
Onset Time ◽  
Sea Breeze ◽  
Land Breeze ◽  
Density Currents ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Onshore Flow ◽  
Kennedy Space ◽  
Horizontal Temperature Gradients ◽  
Land Breezes

Abstract Seven years of wind and temperature data from a high-resolution network of 44 towers at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station were used to develop an objective method for identifying land breezes, which are defined as seaward-moving wind shift lines in this study. The favored meteorological conditions for land breezes consisted of surface high pressure in the vicinity of the Florida peninsula, mainly clear skies, and light synoptic onshore flow and/or the occurrence of a sea breeze during the afternoon preceding a land breeze. The land breeze characteristics are examined for two events occurring under different weather regimes—one with light synoptic onshore flow and no daytime sea breeze, and another following a daytime sea breeze under a prevailing offshore flow. Land breezes were found to occur over east-central Florida in all months of the year and had varied onset times and circulation depths. Land breezes were most common in the spring and summer months and least common in the winter. The average onset times were ∼4–5 h after sunset from May to July and ∼6.5–8 h after sunset from October to January. Land breezes typically moved from the west or southwest during the spring and summer, from the northwest in the autumn, and nearly equally from all directions in the winter. Shallow land breezes (<150-m depth) were typically not associated with the afternoon sea breeze and behaved like density currents, exhibiting the largest temperature decreases and latest onset times. Deep land breezes (>150-m depth) were most often preceded by an afternoon sea breeze, had the smallest horizontal temperature gradients, and experienced a mean onset time that is 4 h earlier than that of shallow land breezes.

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