Influence of the North Atlantic Subtropical High on wet and dry sea-breeze events in North Carolina, United States

• Published in: Investigaciones Geográficas
• Main Authors: Luchetti, Nicholas T., Nieto Ferreira, Rosana, Rickenbach, Thomas M., Nissenbaum, Mark R., McAuliffe, Joel D.
• Other Authors: Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics and the Physical and Dynamic Meteorology programs of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Atmospheric and Geospatial Sciences, Award AGS-1118141.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Alicante 2017
• Subjects: Sea breeze; precipitation; North Carolina; North Atlantic Subtropical High; wind direction; wind speed; Brisa marina; lluvia; Carolina del Norte; alta Subtropical del Atlántico Norte; vientos de escala sinóptica; Alta; Inglés; Nash; Sigla; Sudeste; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://www.investigacionesgeograficas.com/article/view/2017-n68-influence-of-the-north-atlantic-subtropical-high-in-north-carolina; https://doi.org/10.14198/INGEO2017.68.01

The sea-breeze (SB) is an important source of summertime precipitation in North Carolina (NC, southeast United States). However, not all SB events produce precipitation. A climatology of wet and dry SB events in NC is used to investigate the conditions that are conducive to precipitation associated...