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Figure 26:Land-seabreeze system,where ahot landresultsin risingair, whileovertherelative<br />

cold water air sinks.<br />

Especially the transition from relatively warm unstable/neutral land ABL into a stable<br />

IBL over the water (Melas, 1998). Several things happens. The air gradually looses heat to<br />

the water and reach the water surface temperature at the interface, where a small neutral<br />

layer establishes itself. This neutral layer slowly growths up through the stable IBL, until the<br />

original temperature gradient between the two air masses is concentrated at the top of a new<br />

boundary layer that however can take many hundred kilometers to establish itself.<br />

Figure27:Warmneutralairflowingovercoldwater,anddevelopsastableIBL,SIBL,gradually<br />

transitioning to a neutral ABL with an in<strong>version</strong> on the top. Over the water for off-winds.<br />

(Lange et al., 2004). The broken triangular line indicates the possibility for a low level jet at<br />

the transition.<br />

A low level jet may happen in the transition between land and water, because the surface<br />

friction in the boundary layer suddenly disappears, for the air crossing the coastal line.<br />

Considering eq. 1, we see that the wind above the boundary layer is unchanged,friction is<br />

unimportant here. The velocity within the ABL must accelerate because the friction is reduced,<br />

finally the wind has to go to zero at the surface. It is a transitional phenomenon that<br />

graduallydisappearsas the full profileand stress profilereasserts themselves downstreamfrom<br />

the coast line. These lowlevel jets can appears, wherever the surface stress reduces because of<br />

increasing stability or decreasing roughness or both. It is quite well known over the nighttime<br />

Plains of US, where they are a result of the growing night time stability.<br />

The heat/temperature controlled IBLs may happen also especially over water, when synoptic<br />

air masses are advected over relatively cold or warm water. Here especially, the second<br />

one, will give rise to a thermally induced convective IBL, which over the water typically will<br />

<strong>DTU</strong> Wind Energy-E-Report-0029(EN) 45

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