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| == sea breeze ==
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| <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A coastal local [[wind]] that blows from sea to land, caused by the [[temperature]] difference when the sea surface is colder than the adjacent land.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Therefore, it usually blows on relatively [[calm]], sunny, summer days, and alternates with the oppositely directed, usually weaker, nighttime [[land breeze]]. As the sea breeze regime progresses, the wind develops a component parallel to the coast, owing to the [[Coriolis deflection]]. <br/>''See'' [[lake breeze]], [[brisa]], [[doctor]], [[virazon]], [[sea-breeze front]].</div><br/> </div><div class="reference">Defant, F. 1951. Compendium of Meteorology. 655–672. </div><br/>
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