Abstract. With the planned construction of vast offshore wind farms along US East Coast, identifying and understanding key coastal processes, such as sea breezes, has become a critical need for sustainability development energy. In this study, new two-step identification method is proposed to detect characterize three types breezes (pure, corkscrew backdoor) over northeastern coast from year-lo...

Monsoons are prominent features of the atmospheric tropical circulation, affecting the climate of nearly one quarter of the globe and sustaining more than one half of the human population in regions with rapidly growing economies. With projected increases in population and pressure for food security, understanding how monsoons will change with changing climate is both a priority and a major cha...

This study examines the nature of water-soluble organic aerosol measured in Pasadena, CA, under typical conditions and under the influence of a large wildfire (the 2009 Station Fire). During non-fire periods, water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) variability was driven by photochemical production processes and sea breeze transport, resulting in an average diurnal cycle with a maximum at 15:00 loc...

The Advanced Regional Prediction System is used to perform a three-dimensional numerical simulation of land–water circulations near Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three two-way nested grids having spacings of 1.6, 0.4, and 0.1 km are employed. Results show that the structures of both the sea and river breezes compare well with observation and theory. Horizontal convective rolls (HCRs), Kelvin–Helmhol...

Using a high-resolution regional climate model—the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Regional Climate Model version 3 (RegCM3)—and station and satellite observations, the authors have studied the spatial heterogeneity of climate variability over Java Island, Indonesia. Besides the wellknown anomalous dry conditions that characterize the dry and transition seasons during a...