We study the characteristic features of the breeze circulation in the Black-Sea region according to the data of the regional reanalysis of atmospheric circulation carried out on the basis of the MM5 mesoscale model for August 2007 by the method of difference composites. The application of high space resolution of the model (the step of the grid is equal to 9 km) allows us to reproduce the principal features of the sea and land breezes on c the composite maps. It is shown that the space structure of breeze circulation is determined by the configuration of the coastline and coastal orography.
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Translated from Morskoi Gidrofizicheskii Zhurnal, No. 5, pp. 23–36, September–October, 2009.
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Efimov, V.V., Barabanov, V.S. Breeze circulation in the black-sea region. Phys Oceanogr 19, 289–300 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11110-010-9054-6
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