Analytic study of sea-land breezes

An analytic study of the structure of sea-land breezes is presented, with s pecial attention paid to the dependence on the model parameters. In this li nearized model, the wind speed of the sea-land breezes is directly proporti onal to the difference of sea and land heating rates. For the same differen tial heating, the sea-land breeze is more prominent if the stratification i s weakly stable, or if the frictional force is small. The horizontal penetr ation from the coast is also investigated, and found to be asymmetric betwe en the land and the sea. The above results are in agreement with observatio n.