Fiche bibliographique n° 913
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| Titre | Sea breeze and local wind |
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| Auteur | SIMPSON, John E. |
| Année de publication | 1994 |
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| Langue | anglais |
| Éditeur | Cambridge University Press |
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| Code ISBN | 0 521 45211 2 |
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| 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 References Index |
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| Genre | Météorologie/Aérologie |
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| Remarques | Extraits sur le site Wally Kahn & BGA UK eBook Collection. |
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