Fiche bibliographique n° 913

Titre Sea breeze and local wind
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Auteur SIMPSON, John E.
Année de publication 1994
Édition
Langue anglais
ÉditeurCambridge University Press
Pays
Code ISBN0 521 45211 2
Format
Nombre de pages 230
Sommaire Foreword
Preface

1 The sea breeze
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Sea-breeze clouds
1.3 The sea breeze in history
1.4 The onset of the sea breeze
2 Formation of the sea breeze
2.1 Land and sea-breeze generation
2.2 Pressure patterns and the sea breeze
2.3 Sea-breeze strength and direction: hodographs
2.4 Horizontal extent of the land sea-breeze system
3 Sea-breeze fronts
3.1 Structure of a sea-breeze front
3.2 Generation of sea-breeze fronts (frontogenesis)
3.3 Clouds at the sea-breeze front
3.4 Advance of sea-breeze front
3.5 Retreating sea-breeze fronts
3.6 Sea-breeze undular bore
4 Sea-breeze forecasting
4.1 Land and sea temperatures through the year
4.2 Sea-breeze index
4.3 Prediction of inland penetration
4.4 Forecasting from the state of the tide
5 Other local winds
5.1 Winds from diurnal heating on mountains
5.2 Orographic winds
5.3 Other local winds induced by differential heating
6 Air quality
6.1 Pollution
6.2 Pollution in the sea breeze
6.3 Pollution at sea-breeze fronts
6.4 Diurnal recycling of pollution
6.5 Chemistry of sea-breeze pollution
7 Sea breeze interactions
7.1 Sea-breeze convergence zones
7.2 Effects of headlands and peninsulas
7.3 Bifurcations
7.4 Meetings of fronts
7.5 Head-on collisions
7.6 Islands
7.7 Land-breeze convergence
8 Life and the sea breeze
8.1 Pollen
8.2 Insect pests
8.3 Birds and the sea breeze
8.4 The sea breeze and humans 136
9 Sports
9.1 Gliding and the sea breeze
9.2 Ballooning and the sea breeze
9.3 Sailing
10 Technology: field measurements of the sea-breeze
10.1 Near the ground
10.2 Airborne measurements
10.3 Remote sensing: radar
10.4 Remote sensing: acoustic sounding or sodar (sonar)
10.5 Remote sensing: lidar
10.6 Satellite imagery
11 Laboratory measurements
11.1 'Land- and sea-breeze5 simulation in water tanks
11.2 The generation of sea-breeze fronts
11.3 Sea-breeze fronts
11.4 Use of tanks with moving floor
11.5 Ambient stratification: two-layer system
11.6 Collision of fronts
11.7 Requirements of laboratory models
12 Theoretical models
12.1 Analytic models
12.2 Numerical models

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Genre Météorologie/Aérologie
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