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Sea Breeze Sensitivity to Coastal Upwelling and Synoptic Flow Using Lagrangian Methods
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2018
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Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(17), 9443-9461
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Journal Title:Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Description:Sea breezes occur nearly daily in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic summer during high electricity demand periods, and thus have important implications for the burgeoning U.S. offshore wind energy industry. The sea breeze ’s offshore component is poorly understood and ill de fined relative to its onshore counterpart. Here a new Lagrangian method not yet readily used to study the sea breeze, relative dispersion, was validated and applied to a validated Weather Research and Forecasting model in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic. This Lagrangian method is used to characterize the onshore convergent and offshore divergent sea breezeextents and intensities, and test their sensitivities to both atmospheric synoptic flow and oceanic coastal upwelling, another common summer season regional phenomenon. It was found that offshore-directed
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Source:Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(17), 9443-9461
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ISSN:2169-897X
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC-ND
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