Land and Sea Breezes - Research Article from World of Earth Science

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 2 pages of information about Land and Sea Breezes.

Land and Sea Breezes - Research Article from World of Earth Science

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 2 pages of information about Land and Sea Breezes.
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Land and sea breezes are wind and weather phenomena associated with coastal areas. A land breeze is a breeze blowing from land out toward a body of water. A sea breeze is a wind blowing from the water onto the land. Land breezes and sea breezes arise because of differential heating between land and water surfaces. Land and sea breezes can extend inland up to 100 mi (161 km) or manifest as local phenomena that quickly weaken with a few hundred yards of the shoreline. On average, the weather and cloud effects of land and sea breezes dissipate 20–30 mi (32–48 kph) inland from the coast.

Because water has a much higher heat capacity that do sands or other crustal materials, for a given amount of solar irradiation (insolation), water temperature will increase less than land temperature. Regardless of temperature scale, during daytime, land temperatures might...

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