Describe the formation of sea and land breezes. What will be an ideal response?
Land breezes and sea breezes are small, daily mini-monsoons. Morning sunlight falls
on land and adjacent sea, warming both. The temperature of the water doesn’t rise as
much as the temperature of the land, however. The warmer inland rocks transfer heat
to the air, which expands and rises, creating a zone of low atmospheric pressure over
the land. Cooler air from over the sea then moves toward land; this is the sea breeze.
The situation reverses after sunset, with land losing heat to space and falling rapidly
in temperature. After a while, the air over the still-warm ocean will be warmer than
the air over the cooling land. This air will then rise, and the breeze direction will
reverse, becoming a land breeze. Land breezes and sea breezes are common and
welcome occurrences in coastal areas.
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