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Win over land and sea issues

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Topic: Win over land and sea issues

Posted By: ddraver
Subject: Win over land and sea issues
Date Posted: 26 May 10 at 7:04pm

Hi Guys

I ve been reading up about Wind behaviour. I am horribly confused about why the wind veers as it moves out over the sea - OK so there is the issue of friction variance between the land and sea but why does that cause it to change direction?

does anyone have a nice early learning centre explanation?

Cheers

davek

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Posted By: Strangler
Date Posted: 16 Jun 10 at 1:07pm

It depends who you read. Could not find any Janet and John explanations but here's one from Frank Singleton's excellent website

http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Coastal-Wind-Variatios - http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Coastal-Wind-Var iatios

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