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The diurnal evolution of the sea breeze hodograph over the Attic Peninsula has been studied using a three-dimensional numerical mesoscale model with fully nonlinear friction parameterization. The model results compare well with observed hodographs at three points in the modelling domain, and show that the balance of pressure gradient and terrain gradient forcing is dominant, and that this balance may result in either clockwise or anticlockwise rotation.
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Steyn, D.G., Kallos, G. A study of the dynamics of hodograph rotation in the sea breezes of Attica, Greece. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 58, 215–228 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02033825
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