Abstract Particularly challenging classes of heterogeneous surfaces are ones where strong secondary circulations generated, potentially dominating the flow dynamics. In this study, we focus on land‐sea breeze (LSBs) resulting from surface thermal contrasts, in presence increasing synoptic pressure forcing. The relative importance and orientation forcings measured through two dimensionless param...

despite the numerous advantages of large dams, there is still a deep suspicion about the real,long-term benefits and costs of their construction. land use change on a vast scale, displacement of a largepopulation of indigenous people, loss of biodiversity and production of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as environmental, socioeconomic and cultural consequences resulting therefrom, indicate c...

Air pollution transport over Central Japan was numerically simulated in a typical land and sea breeze situation in summer season. The models used in the calculation were extensions of those described in Kitada et al. (1993) and (1998). Sensitivity of the production of ozone and acidic species to emissions of biogenic non-methane-hydrocarbon (NMHC), and anthropogenic-NMHC and -NOx were focused; ...