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Lake-Land Breeze ... Sea breezes occur during hot, summer days and are caused by unequal heating of adjacent land and water. During the day, solar radiation causes the land surface to heat up more quickly than the water surface. Therefore, the air above the land is warmer than the air above the ocean.
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Since the pressure at any location is determined by the weight of the air above it, the accumulation of air at higher levels causes the pressure at levels below to increase. ... In the case of a developing land-breeze circulation, an area of high pressure develops over land at the surface in response to the accumulation of...
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ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/fw/land/crc.rxml
ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/fw/land/crc.rxml
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This steady wind, the sea breeze, is a result of the uneven heating during the daytime between the land and the adjacent water. At night the wind often reverses direction and blows from the land to the water (a land breeze).
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cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/seabrz.html
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The ancient Greeks were the first to write extensively of the sea-land breeze rhythm. Homer, in the Odyssey, related that both Odysseus and Telemachus set sail after dark to take advantage of the land breeze blowing out to sea.
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www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/elements/seabrz.htm
www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/elements/seabrz.htm
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Sea breeze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A sea-breeze (or onshore breeze ) is a wind from the sea that develops over land near coasts. It is formed by increasing temperature differences between the land and water which create a pressure ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_breeze
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Near the surface, however, hydrostatic conditions result in lower pressure over land since the air over land is warmer than that over water from the surface to a level several hundred metres above the ground. This pressure gradient causes a flow from lake to land near the surface known as the 'lake breeze' (Figure 1b).
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www.yorku.ca/pat/research/dsills/primer.html
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Use land breeze in a Sentence ... See web results for land breeze ... What causes land br...
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/land+breeze
dictionary.reference.com/browse/land+breeze
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The land breeze at night is the reverse of the daytime sea-breeze circulation. At night, land surfaces cool more quickly than ... The increase in air density causes pressure to become relatively higher over the land than over the water, and this pressure difference, in turn, causes air to flow from the land to the water.
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www.forestencyclopedia.net/p/p405
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Just as a fire in a grate causes an up-current in a chimney, the updraught becoming progressively stronger as the fire burns more vigorously (and vice-versa), so the sea breeze gains in momentum and spreads over a greater area of land.
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www.bom.gov.au/weather/nsw/amfs/Sea%20Breeze.shtml
www.bom.gov.au/weather/nsw/amfs/Sea%20Breeze.shtml
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