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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&ndash;672. </div><br/>  
<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 effect|Coriolis deflection]]. <br/>''See'' [[lake breeze|lake  breeze]], [[brisa]], [[doctor]], [[virazon]], [[sea-breeze front]].</div><br/> </div><div class="reference">Defant, F. 1951. Compendium of Meteorology. 655&ndash;672. </div><br/>  
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sea breeze[edit | edit source]

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.

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.
See lake breeze, brisa, doctor, virazon, sea-breeze front.

Defant, F. 1951. Compendium of Meteorology. 655–672.


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