Sea breezes over north-west Arabia

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Using surface and upper wind observations on three days at each of three sites in northwestern Saudi Arabia it was found that the sea breeze could extend at least 225 km inland at an average speed of 6.7 m sec?1 between 1445 and 2300. At 25 km inland both the on-shore component and the off-shore return flow above it were about 1.2 km deep. At this site two increases in dew point, separated by about two hours, followed the arrival of the sea breeze and may have represented the arrival of air with a mostly land track followed by air with a mostly sea track. An unexplained fall in dew point immediately preceded the arrival of the sea breeze on six out of 11 days. DOI: 10.1111/j.2153-3490.1976.tb00679.x
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