Name: How is Wind Formed?
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 5 min 1 s
Description: The wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. The sun is the main reason for the wind flow patterns on our planet. How? We will discuss this in this video.

Question

How land breeze and sea breeze are caused?

Accepted Answer

Air moves all the time. Gentle-moving air is called a breeze.
On a warm summer day along the coast, uneven heating of land and sea leads to the development of local wind called a sea breeze. The air above the land surface is heated quickly by radiation from the sun since land gets heated up faster than water. This hot air above the land becomes lighter than the surrounding air, expands, and begins to rise. This creates a low-pressure area. Water takes a long time to get heated. So, air over the sea is still cool. To replace the rising air over land cooler air rushes. This is how the sea breeze offers a pleasant cooling influence on hot summer afternoons.

A land breeze occurs as the land cools faster at night than the sea. The air above the warmer sea gets heated and rises. To fill in space, air from the cooler land surface rushes in, causing a land breeze.

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