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Surfaces fluxes, turbulent kinetic energy and Flux Richardson number are calculated for three typical sea breeze days characterizing three types of sea breeze onset at an inland station Kharagpur (22°21′ N, 87°19′ E), 80 km inland, one of the sites for MONTBLEX (MONsoon Trough Boundary Layer EXperiment), in India. The sea breeze onset is associated with a decrease in momentum and heat fluxes and an increase in moisture flux. The turbulent kinetic energy shows quite a significant value even in the late afternoon. The surface layer becomes nearly stable even before sunset, due to the passage of the sea breeze.
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Lohar, D., Pal, B. & Chakravarty, B. Sea breeze activity at an inland station Kharagpur (India) — A case study. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 67, 427–434 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00705442
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