marine air invasion of the Pacific Coast a problem analysis

Abstract

This paper reviews the literature on the main aspects of marine air invasion on the Pacific coast. In particular, it considers the sea breeze, Pacific coast monsoon, and airflow over coastal mountains. The major problems associated with marine air invasion are: 1) the relationship of microscale convection, waves, and banded convection-waves to the sea-breeze energetics and sea-breeze front, 2) the interaction of energy forming and dissipating processes from the general circulation down to the micrometeorological scale, 3) the climatology and dynamics of the monsoon, and 4) the mechanism of the lee waves observed in the lee of the heated coastal mountains. Lee waves often form in a statically unstable atmosphere.

Observations of complex-terrain flows using acoustic sounders: Experiments, topography, and winds

“…These ASCOT experiments obtained drainage flow measurements in the Geysers primarily during the summer season, a period normally marked by a persistent onshore flow from the Pacific high pressure region (the Pacific coast monsoon, Schroeder et al, 1967) with a superimposed diurnal seabreeze cycle. The inland penetration of the marine layer associated with this cycle, with low clouds and stratus its most visible artifact, has been described in detail by a number of authors (e.g., Edinger, 1959;Fosberg and Schroeder, 1966) and the depth and structure of the marine temperature inversion by others including Russell and Uthe (1978) and Lester (1985).…”

Atmospheric Waves Over a Coastal California Site

“…Lower levels are marked by a well developed cool (1 2"C), moist (85 per cent relative humidity) stable-to-neutral maritime boundary. Above this layer, which averages about 400 m thick in this area during the summer, is a layer of very dry, warm, stable air produced by subsidence along the eastern margin of the Pacific High (Schroeder et al 1967).…”

Critical review of studies on atmospheric dispersion in coastal regions

“…Other works published in the 1960's include those by Van der Hoven (1967) and Schroeder, et al, (1967). Lyons (1975) presented a very detailed treatise on transport and diffusion in coastal regimes at the AMS Workshop on Meteorology and Environmental Assessment.…”