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Global observations of the land breeze
Author(s) -
Gille Sarah T.,
Llewellyn Smith Stefan G.,
Statom Nicholas M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2004gl022139
Subject(s) - sea breeze , scatterometer , submarine pipeline , hodograph , climatology , environmental science , satellite , meteorology , geology , atmospheric sciences , wind speed , oceanography , geography , aerospace engineering , engineering
Four‐times daily satellite wind observations from the QuikSCAT and ADEOS‐II tandem scatterometer mission are used to study the land/sea breeze circulation. These observations provide a global view of diurnal wind variations over the ocean. Results agree with frictional linear theory: winds follow an elliptical hodograph through the course of the day, but indicate that diurnal wind variations propagate offshore progressively like nonlinear gravity waves and are detectable several hundred kilometers from the coast.