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Typical sea-breeze (afternoon) and land-breeze (night) circulations with associated cloud formations.

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In climate: Local wind systems
The so-called sea and land breeze circulation is a local wind system typically encountered along coastlines adjacent to large bodies of water and is induced by differences that occur between the heating or cooling of the water surface and the adjacent land surface. Water has a higher…
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