Summer sea breeze, under suppressive synoptic forcing, in a hyper-arid city: Eilat, Israel

Saaroni, Hadas; Maza, Eitan; Ziv, Baruch

doi:10.3354/cr026213

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“…Saaroni et al . () 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. They reported a mean onshore wind component of 2.0 m/s, while the peak onshore wind speed was 7.2 m/s.…”

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“…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. They reported a mean onshore wind component of 2.0 m/s, while the peak onshore wind speed was 7.2 m/s.…”

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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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“…Rarely, there are strong southerly winds. During the summer, there is a strong diurnal cycle associated with the diurnal breeze cycle (Saaroni et al 2004). Rare strong wind events may occur in the wintertime, usually during southern storms.…”

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On the Probability and Spatial Distribution of Ocean Surface Currents

Ashkenazy

Gildor

2011

Journal of Physical Oceanography

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Insights into the probability distribution of ocean currents are important for various applications such as the chance to encounter extreme events, which may affect, for example, marine construction, and for estimating the energy that can be extracted from the ocean. In addition, for devising better parameterizations for submesoscale mixing, which present climate models cannot resolve, one should understand the velocity distribution and its relation to the various forcing of surface ocean circulation. Here, the authors investigate the probability distribution of surface currents from the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba measured by high-frequency radar. Their results show that the distribution of ocean current speeds can be approximated by a Weibull distribution. Moreover, the authors demonstrate the existence of spatial variations of the scale and shape parameters of the Weibull distribution over a relatively small region of only a few kilometers. They use a simple surface Ekman layer model to investigate this spatial variability. They find that, when forced by local winds, this model does not reproduce the observations. The addition of Gaussian noise to the zonal and meridional components of the bottom geostrophic currents has only a slight effect on the surface current distribution. However, noise added to the components of the local wind (mimicking wind gusts) has a much greater effect on the distribution of surface currents, suggesting that wind spatial and temporal variability underlay the observed spatial variability of the parameters of the Weibull distribution.

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“…Similar behavior occurs at the IEC, with 80% of the southerly wind records at the IEC representing southerlies at the buoy, and only 66% of the southerlies at the buoy indicating southerly winds at the IEC. A previous study by Saaroni et al (2004) has shown that southerly sea breeze may develop in the northern gulf in spite of the opposing prevailing northerly winds and the relatively narrow sea. Southerly sea breeze develops in only 25% of the days in July and August, when the dominant synoptic pattern (the Persian Trough) is weaker than the rest of the days.…”

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