Table of Contents
About this book 7
Part 1 9
Terms used in this book 11
Notes on the percentage frequencies 13
Thermal winds 15
The wind's day 22
The way of the breeze 27
Cause and effects of the seabreeze 33
Looking for the seabreeze inland 40
The seabreeze in the coastal inshore zone 45
Ways in which the seabreeze sets in 50
Seabreeze streamlines 54
The monsoon effect 58
Part 2 61
Southern Norway, west coast of Sweden, Denmark, Skagerrak, Kattegat, the Belts and the north-east German shores 63
The eastern side of the North Sea: Dunkirk to the Frisians 66
North-west North Sea, Shetland, Orkney and Scotland 68
Eastern England: Tynemouth to the Thames Estuary 71
FOCUS: Penetration of Seabreeze fronts 74
The English Channel and La Manche coasts 75
The west coast of England and Wales 80
Ireland 33
The French Manche coast: Dunkirk to Brittany 85
The Biscay coast of France and north coast of Spain 88
The Atlantic coasts of Iberia 91
FOCUS: The regional winds of the Mediterranean 94
Spain, south and east coasts, Gibraltar to Valencia 96
North-east coasts of Spain, Gulf of Lions to Marseille, the Balearics 98
FOCUS: The mistral 100
The Gulf of Genoa, Ligurian Sea and Corsica 102
The west coast of Italy: Genoa to Paola and Sardinia, Sicily 105
Toe and heel of Italy, Strait of Otranto and Ionian Sea 110
The Adriatic Sea 113
The southern Aegean 116
The northern Aegean 119
Southern Turkey, Cyprus, Syria and Lebanon 121
Index 125