Flow and plume dispersion in a coastal valley

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An analysis is carried out of summertime surface and upper-air wind and temperature data from the Latrobe Valley in southeastern Australia. An easterly sea breeze is found to regularly penetrate over 100km up the east-west-oriented valley, meeting a sea breeze from the south coast in late afternoon. The latter enters the valley over a saddle in the Strzelecki Ranges to the south. Over a 5-day period of steady synoptic flow, winds below 1500m fluctuated between easterly and westerly with a diurnal period, while above this height up to 3000m, the wind direction remained westerly. The westerly winds were particularly surprising, as the synoptic pressure charts showed a northeasterly pressure gradient over the period. -from Authors

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Physick, W. L., & Abbs, D. J. (1992). Flow and plume dispersion in a coastal valley. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 31(1), 64–73. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1992)031<0064:FAPDIA>2.0.CO;2

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