An automated sea breeze selection technique based on regional sea‐level pressure difference: WeMOi

Azorín-Molina, César; López-Bustins, Joan A.

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“…A number of studies have been conducted on sea–land breezes in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region using both observations and models. Most of these studies have been focused on the Mediterranean Sea, describing the main characteristics of the sea breeze in different regions (Ramis and Alonso, ; Furberg et al, ; Azorin‐Molina and Lopez‐Bustins, ; Azorin‐Molina et al, ; Azorin‐Molina et al, ). Saaroni et al .…”

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“…A number of studies have been conducted on sea-land breezes in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region using both observations and models. Most of these studies have been focused on the Mediterranean Sea, describing the main characteristics of the sea breeze in different regions (Ramis and Alonso, 1988;Furberg et al, 2002;Azorin-Molina and Lopez-Bustins, 2008;Azorin-Molina et al, 2009a;Azorin-Molina et al, 2011). Saaroni et al (2004) noted a weaker pressure gradient (38% less than the average) on sea breeze days in the Gulf of Aqaba and also found that sea breeze events occurred on only 25% of the days in July and August during a 6-year study period and lasted 4-6 hr.…”

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Climatology of sea breezes along the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia

Khan

Abualnaja

Al-Subhi

et al. 2018

Intl Journal of Climatology

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Long‐term near‐surface observations from five coastal stations, high‐resolution model data from Modern Era Retrospective‐Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) and high‐resolution daily sea surface temperature (SST) from National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are used to investigate the climatology of sea breezes over the eastern side of the Red Sea region. Results show existence of separate sea breeze systems along different segments of the Red Sea coastline. Based on the physical character and synoptic influences, sea breezes in the Red Sea are broadly divided into three regions: the north and the middle Red Sea (NMRS), the Red Sea convergence zone (RSCZ) and the southern Red Sea (SRS) regions. On average, sea breezes developed on 67% of days of the 10‐year study period. Although sea breezes occur almost all year, this mesoscale phenomenon is most frequent from May to October (78% of the total sea breeze days). The sea breeze frequency increases from north to south (equatorwards), and sea breeze characteristics appear to vary both temporally and spatially. In addition to land–sea thermal differential, coastline shape, latitude and topography, the prevailing northwesterly at NMRS region, the convergence of northwesterly and southeasterly wind system at RSCZ region and the northeast and southwest monsoon at SRS region play an important role in defining the sea breeze characteristics over the Red Sea.

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Climatology of sea breezes along the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia

Khan

Abualnaja

Al-Subhi

et al. 2018

Intl Journal of Climatology

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“…For example, the urban heat island (UHI) effect can cause increasing temperature gaps between sea and land, leading to strengthened SLB circulation (Ma et al, 2013). In addition to model simulation studies, there have also been many observational studies that investigated the structure of SLBs (Oliphant et al, 2001), particularly during the recent period when high time‐resolution observational data have been available for coastal cities worldwide (Azorin‐Monica & Lopez‐Bustins, 2008; Finkele et al, 1995; Park & Chae, 2018). Finkele et al (1995) used high‐resolution data to reveal the three‐dimensional structure of SLB circulation in the coastal areas of South Australia.…”

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Dominance of Shortwave Radiative Heating in the Sea‐Land Breeze Amplitude and its Impacts on Atmospheric Visibility in Tokyo, Japan

Shen

Zhao

2020

JGR Atmospheres

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This study uses 21-year observations to analyze the characteristics of sea-land breeze (SLB) circulation and its potential influencing factors in the metropolis of Tokyo. Unlike in other megacities, the magnitude of the SLB in Tokyo does not show a decreasing trend over the years. It is found that the diurnal variation magnitude of the SLB fits an approximately sinusoidal function. The diurnal variation amplitude mainly depends on shortwave radiation that reaches the ground. Stronger radiation is often accompanied by SLB circulation with greater energy, which helps transport more air pollution in the urban area of Tokyo. Correspondingly, atmospheric visibility shows good correlation with in situ shortwave radiation. Generally, strong radiation heats the ground surface, which causes larger land-sea temperature differences and thus greater SLB circulation amplitudes, which is favorable for pollution dispersion and better atmospheric visibility. The presence of less aerosols and the associated better atmospheric visibility weaken the umbrella effect on solar radiation, which allows more solar radiation to reach the ground. This positive feedback could further strengthen the connection between solar radiation, sea-land breezes, and atmospheric visibility. Increasing solar radiation and atmospheric visibility even produces stronger SLB magnitudes at night. Moreover, it is noteworthy that urban heat island circulation plays a similar role to that of SLB circulation, which also makes the variation of in situ radiation and visibility synchronous.

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“…The most common meteorological framework during the summer months over the Western Mediterranean coast is that corresponding to mesoscale circulations associated with sea-land breezes (Azorin-Molina et al, 2008;Azorin-Molina et al, 2009;Miró et al, 2009;Azorin-Molina et al, 2011), which assumes more than 80% of the situations over eastern Spain (Miró et al, 2009). However, those atmospheric conditions connected to western synoptic advections are also recognized in this region as they are related to high and extreme temperature situations, specially inland but reaching the coast as well (Miró et al, 2006;Estrela et al, 2007;Estrela et al, 2008).…”

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RAMS-forecasts comparison of typical summer atmospheric conditions over the Western Mediterranean coast

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Caselles

Estrela

et al. 2014

Atmospheric Research

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The Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) has been used in order to perform a high-resolution numerical simulation of two meteorological events related to the most common atmospheric environments during the summer over the Western Mediterranean coast: mesoscale circulations and western synoptic advections. In this regard, we take advantage of the operational RAMS configuration running within the real-time forecasting system environment already implemented over this Mediterranean area, precisely in the Valencia Region and nearby areas. The attention of this paper is especially focused on identifying the main features of both events and the ability of the model in resolving the associated characteristics as well as in performing a comprehensive evaluation of the model by means of diverse meteorological observations available within the selected periods over the area of study. Additionally, as this paper is centred in RAMS-based forecasts, two simulations are operated applying the most two recent versions of the RAMS model implemented in the above mentioned system: RAMS 4.4 and RAMS 6.0. Therefore, a comparison among both versions of the model has been performed as well. Finally, it is our intention to contrast the RAMS forecasts for two completely different atmospheric conditions common with the area of study in the summer. A main difference between the simulation of both meteorological situations has been found in the humidity. In this sense, while the model underestimates this magnitude considering the mesoscale event, especially at night time, the model reproduces the daily humidity properly under the western synoptic advection.

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An automated sea breeze selection technique based on regional sea‐level pressure difference: WeMOi

Cited by 22 publications

References 26 publications

Climatology of sea breezes along the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia

Climatology of sea breezes along the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia

Dominance of Shortwave Radiative Heating in the Sea‐Land Breeze Amplitude and its Impacts on Atmospheric Visibility in Tokyo, Japan

RAMS-forecasts comparison of typical summer atmospheric conditions over the Western Mediterranean coast

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