During daytime, which phenomenon causes air to move toward shore due to heating of land?

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During daytime, which phenomenon causes air to move toward shore due to heating of land?

During the day, differential heating between land and sea creates a coastal breeze. The land warms up faster, causing the air over the land to rise and low pressure to form along the shore. Cooler air from the sea moves in to replace that rising air, creating a flow from sea to land—the sea breeze. The opposite effect, where air moves from land to sea, occurs at night when the land cools. Monsoon and trade winds are large-scale wind patterns, not this local daytime coastal wind.

During the day, differential heating between land and sea creates a coastal breeze. The land warms up faster, causing the air over the land to rise and low pressure to form along the shore. Cooler air from the sea moves in to replace that rising air, creating a flow from sea to land—the sea breeze. The opposite effect, where air moves from land to sea, occurs at night when the land cools. Monsoon and trade winds are large-scale wind patterns, not this local daytime coastal wind.

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