Global observations of the land breeze

Global observations of the land breeze

Four‐times daily satellite wind observations from the QuikSCAT and ADEOS‐II tandem scatterometer mission are used to study the land/sea breeze circulation. These observations provide a global view of diurnal wind variations over the ocean. Results agree with frictional linear theory: winds follow an...

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Veröffentlicht in:Geophysical research letters 2005-03, Vol.32 (5), p.L05605-n/a
Hauptverfasser: Gille, Sarah T., Llewellyn Smith, Stefan G., Statom, Nicholas M.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Air/sea interactions
Atmospheric Processes
Boundary layer processes
Diurnal, seasonal, and annual cycles
Nearshore processes
Oceanography
Physical
Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes
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Zusammenfassung:Four‐times daily satellite wind observations from the QuikSCAT and ADEOS‐II tandem scatterometer mission are used to study the land/sea breeze circulation. These observations provide a global view of diurnal wind variations over the ocean. Results agree with frictional linear theory: winds follow an elliptical hodograph through the course of the day, but indicate that diurnal wind variations propagate offshore progressively like nonlinear gravity waves and are detectable several hundred kilometers from the coast.
ISSN:0094-8276
1944-8007
DOI:10.1029/2004GL022139