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A method for finding sea breeze days under stable synoptic conditions and its application to the Swedish west coast
Author(s) -
Borne K.,
Chen D.,
Nunez M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of climatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.58
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-0088
pISSN - 0899-8418
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0088(19980630)18:8<901::aid-joc295>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - sea breeze , archipelago , climatology , west coast , shore , synoptic scale meteorology , meteorology , oceanography , period (music) , empirical orthogonal functions , wind speed , black sea , environmental science , geology , geography , physics , acoustics
A method for selecting sea breeze days in an archipelago was developed with special application to the West Coast of Sweden. The primary criterion for identifying a sea breeze was the occurrence of a distinct change in surface wind direction within a 24 h period. The data used in the study were gathered using hourly meteorological records from field stations situated on the West Coast. Six different filters were included in the method; each of them developed from empirical knowledge of the physical processes responsible for the occurrence of a sea breeze system. Using this method it is possible to create a data set of sea breeze days, which does not use distance to the shoreline as a necessary condition for classification. © 1998 Royal Meteorological Society