What causes sea breeze?

      

What causes sea breeze?

  

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Samson
A sea breeze can be regarded as a wind that blows from ocean surface to the land.Sea breeze is mainly caused by temperature variation of the ocean and the sorrounding land.

During the day time,when it is sunny,the ocean and land are subjected to higher temperature condition.The radiation energy from the sun is taken in by both the the land and the water in the ocean.The land is heated at a faster rate compared to the water,this leads to rise of warm air above the land during day time.Due to the lower heating of the water,there is formation of high surface pressure.The sea breeze occurs when the wind currents blows from the area of high pressure over the ocean to the land where there is lower pressure.
Muchiri Samson answered the question on April 10, 2018 at 15:28


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