A Sea breeze
Sea Breeze
Cool dense air moves during the night from the land toward the water as land breezes. This occurs as the land cools more rapidly than water, creating a pressure difference that causes the air to flow from land to sea. Land breezes typically occur in coastal areas and can bring cooler temperatures to the coastline.
It loses moisture if cooled below its dew point. It becomes more dense, and that causes it to move toward areas where the air is less dense.
Sea breeze.
Rocks become less dense when they melt
Sea Breeze
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Sea breeze
A sea breeze and its nighttime counterpart, a land breeze, occur where the land meets the water. They exist because land and water absorb heat at different rates. Land heats up and cools down more quickly than water. During the day, solar radiation warms the air over land by conduction. The heated air becomes less dense and creates an imbalance of both temperature and pressure between the air over the land and the air over the water. You might suspect that something will happen to relieve this imbalance, and you're right. Recall that air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure, and that cooler air tends to displace warmer air. The cool, dense air over the water moves inland, forcing up the warm, less-dense air over land. A convection current results. This is a sea breeze.Land BreezeAt night, the convection current reverses. Air over land cools down more quickly than air over water. The cooler, denser air moves toward the sea, forcing the air over the water to rise. This is a land breeze.
Winds generally blow from areas of high pressure (denser air) to areas of low pressure (less dense air). This movement of air is due to the difference in air pressure between the two areas.
A sea breezeWhen a cool dense air from over the water flows inland it is called a sea breeze.
Cool dense air moves during the night from the land toward the water as land breezes. This occurs as the land cools more rapidly than water, creating a pressure difference that causes the air to flow from land to sea. Land breezes typically occur in coastal areas and can bring cooler temperatures to the coastline.
A sea breezeWhen a cool dense air from over the water flows inland it is called a sea breeze.
When cool, dense air from over the water flows inland, it is called a sea breeze. Sea breezes occur during the day when the land heats up faster than the water, causing the air over the water to be cooler and denser, creating a wind flow towards the land.
A density current forms when more dense seawater moves toward less dense seawater.
A density current forms when more dense seawater moves toward less dense seawater.
It loses moisture if cooled below its dew point. It becomes more dense, and that causes it to move toward areas where the air is less dense.