Unsteady Land-Sea Breeze Circulations in the Presence of a Synoptic Pressure Forcing
Mohammad Allouche,
Elie Bou-Zeid,
Juho Iipponen
Abstract:Unsteady land-sea breezes (LSBs) resulting from time-varying surface
thermal contrasts Δθ(t) are explored in the presence of a constant
synoptic pressure forcing, Mg, when the latter is oriented from sea to
land (α=0°), versus land to sea (α=180°). Large eddy simulations reveal
the development of four distinctive regimes depending on the joint
interaction between (Mg, α) and Δθ(t) in modulating the fine-scale
dynamics. Time lags, computed as the shifts that maximize correlation
coefficients of the dynamics bet… Show more
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