Main characteristics of sea/land breezes along the eastern coast of the Northern Adriatic

Authors

  • Maja Telišman Prtenjak Andrija Mohorovičić Geophysical Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Keywords:

Sea breeze, land breeze, Northern Adriatic

Abstract

An average daily wind regime along the Northern Adriatic eastern coast has been examined at 10 meteorological stations for summertime sea/land breeze circulationThe stations considered are Pula-Airport, Opatija, Rijeka, Senj, Malinska, Omišalj, Mali Lošinj, Rab, Zadar and Zadar-Airport. The aim was to examine the frequency, the times of onset and cessation, the average duration of sea/land breezes, and the impact of the Coriolis force on the wind vector rotation at chosen stations. The results are comparable with corresponding studies of mid-latitude locations. For two stations, an anticlockwise rotation has been discovered (Malinska and Senj), while the remaining stations showed a clockwise rotation, which prevails on the northern hemisphere coasts.

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Published

2003-01-01

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Section

Preliminary communication