Sea breeze: Structure, forecasting, and impacts

STK Miller, BD Keim, RW Talbot… - Reviews of geophysics, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The sea breeze system (SBS) occurs at coastal locations throughout the world and consists
of many spatially and temporally nested phenomena. Cool marine air propagates inland …

Sea and lake breezes: A review of numerical studies

ET Crosman, JD Horel - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2010 - Springer
Numerical studies of sea and lake breezes are reviewed. The modelled dependence of sea-
breeze and lake-breeze characteristics on the land surface sensible heat flux, ambient …

Megacities as hot spots of air pollution in the East Mediterranean

M Kanakidou, N Mihalopoulos, T Kindap, U Im… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the actual knowledge on the atmospheric
pollution sources, transport, transformation and levels in the East Mediterranean. It focuses …

[HTML][HTML] The extreme heat wave of July–August 2021 in the Athens urban area (Greece): Atmospheric and human-biometeorological analysis exploiting ultra-high …

C Giannaros, I Agathangelidis, G Papavasileiou… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Greece was affected by a prolonged and extreme heat wave (HW) event (July 28–August
05) during the abnormally hot summer of 2021, with the maximum temperature in Athens …

Numerical study of the urban heat island over Athens (Greece) with the WRF model

TM Giannaros, D Melas, IA Daglis… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this study, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with the Noah
land surface model was tested over the city of Athens, Greece, during two selected days …

Study of wind field under sea breeze conditions; an application of WRF model

DK Papanastasiou, D Melas, I Lissaridis - Atmospheric Research, 2010 - Elsevier
Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model is applied to study the wind field over the east
coast of central Greece under typical summer conditions. This study aims at identifying the …

Climatology and impact on air quality of sea breeze in an urban coastal environment

DK Papanastasiou, D Melas - … of Climatology: A Journal of the …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The aims of this paper are to investigate the characteristics of the sea breeze that is
developing in Volos area, a medium sized coastal city in central Greece, and to study the …

Chemical characterisation of single airborne particles in Athens (Greece) by ATOFMS

M Dall'Osto, RM Harrison - Atmospheric Environment, 2006 - Elsevier
A TSI Model 3800 aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer (ATOFMS) was deployed for
single-particle analysis to Athens (Greece) during August 2003. It has revealed particle …

The role of sea-salt emissions and heterogeneous chemistry in the air quality of polluted coastal areas

E Athanasopoulou, M Tombrou… - Atmospheric …, 2008 - acp.copernicus.org
Open-ocean and surf-zone sea-salt aerosol (SSA) emission parameterizations are
incorporated in the CAMx aerosol model and applied over an area with an extended …

Climatological aspects of aerosol optical properties in Northern Greece

E Gerasopoulos, MO Andreae… - Atmospheric …, 2003 - acp.copernicus.org
Measurements of aerosol optical properties (aerosol optical depth, scattering and
backscattering coefficients) have been conducted at two ground-based sites in Northern …