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land breeze

[′land ‚brēz]

(meteorology)

A coastal breeze blowing from land to sea, caused by the temperature difference when the sea surface is warmer than the adjacent land; therefore, the land breeze usually blows by night and alternates with a sea breeze which blows in the opposite direction by day.

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Statom, "Global observations of the land breeze," Geophysical Research Letters, vol.

Surface Thermodynamic Gradients Associated with Gulf of Mexico Sea-Breeze Fronts

This nighttime maximum has been attributed to convergent nocturnal land breezes (e.g., Flohn and Fraedrich 1966; Ba and Nicholson 1998; Yin and Nicholson 2000; Nicholson and Yin 2002).

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Meyer, "Radar observations of land breeze fronts," Journal of Applied Meteorology, vol.

Neumann, "Land breezes and nocturnal thunderstorms," Journal of Meteorology, vol.

Cold Outbreaks at the Mesoscale in the Western Mediterranean Basin: From Raincells to Rainbands

On the other hand, the cross-section of the vertical velocity along the two-rainfall maxima also confirmed the strong upward motion over the lake associated with land breeze circulation during nocturnal time.

The intense precipitation occurrence fell into the nocturnal peak between midnight and the early morning hours, which coincided with the strong land breeze circulation when the lake was warmer during the nighttime.

A numerical investigation of the precipitation over Lake Victoria basin using a coupled atmosphere-lake limited-area model

The land breeze starts to become a more dominant overnight feature of the race track at this time, especially under slack pressure gradients and also night-time temperature inversions over the coastal strip.

THE FAST TRACK NORTH SYDNEY - MOOLOOLABA PREVIEW

Those who stayed inside benefited from the land breezes in the evenings.

Audi Sydney gold coast yacht race

Summer south east sea breezes and evening land breezes and the transition between them combined with a edd running current of up to 2 knots, once forced Coxon to make five attempts to cross the finish line off Battery Point.

The tactical approach: the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is as much a battle of the brains as tacticians try to pick the winning southward passage. But according to veteran Sydney Hobart campaigner and tactician Michael Coxon, the job entails more than just plotting the best course

In these situations, navigators will have to 'massage' the model output to take into account the complex and not so complex effects of topography, sea and land breezes, etc.

From guesswork to computers: an insight into numerical weather prediction: meteorology, the interdisciplinary scientific study of the earth's atmosphere, traditionally incorporates physics, chemistry and hydrology. Exponential leaps forward in computational power, however, have meant that mathematics is now one of the principal disciplines used by meteorologists to predict what the weather will be like tomorrow

Headwinds can crop up closer to Luzon, largest Of the Philippines' 7,000-island archipelago, and tacticians worry about staying out or going in to pick up land breezes, but at the end of the race the beer is cold and cheap, the Filipinos are very friendly, and there are many attractive cruising options.