Land breeze and sea breeze (from Garrison 1993: fig. 8.13).

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... was a few degrees warmer than today (Bonsal et. al. 2013, 15). This might create a wind effect well known in southern regions. In daytime, when the sun heats up the land, warm air will rise and draw cold air from the sea. In the night the effect will reverse, the warm sea will heat up the air above, and this will create an offshore breeze ( fig. 6). During summer land accepts more heat and onshore wind dominates. During winter land is cooler than sea and offshore wind dominates. This weather process creates a predictable effect that may well have been used by the Neolithic ...