EESA09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sea Breeze, Thermal Wind, Katabatic Wind
6 Mar 2020
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Often associated with day and night contrasts. Land warms faster than water during daytime, air rising at the land and moves and sinks into the water. As the sea breeze develops the advancing on-shore breeze forms a front. Land air is forced up and can generate sea breeze frontal clouds. Shallower than fronts produced by midlatitude cyclones. Can cause short term precipitation, thunderstorms and etc. During night, air rises on water and sinks over land. Referred to seasonal trade winds in arabian sea. Land sea breeze diurnal phenomenon, and monsoon is a seasonal phenomenon. Large scale impacts on india and surrounding countries(south asia) and africa. Rain lasts for weeks at a time. Can be critical for crops, drinking water. Other monsoons occur in africa, australia, south america and north. Air rises over land, moves towards water and sinks over water. Summer monsoon can cause huge amount of precipitation.
