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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-675-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-675-2022
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13 May 2022
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Currents generated by the sea breeze in the southern Caspian Sea

Mina Masoud and Rich Pawlowicz

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The smaller thermal heat capacity of land relative to the sea results in land–sea thermal gradients with a daily cycle, called sea breeze systems, with the same daily periodicity. Since tides in the Caspian, as the largest enclosed basin with a persistent sea breeze system through the year, are very weak we found that most of the higher-frequency variations in coastal currents are a response to the sea breeze system.