Upon coming across a page filled with brief descriptions of the reviewed published works of esteemed climatologist Roger A. Pielke, Sr. I came across this quite interesting marine-oriented piece accepted for publication back in 1980 while R.A. Pielke was part of the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia.
The report was eventually published in the Ocean Management journal.
The paper, as described by Pielke, is an overview of how the world understands the physical interactions between sea-and-land breeze and coastal waters.
This paper overviews the modes of interaction between coastal waters and the sea-and-land-breeze circulations. It is concluded that, for most situations, the major influence of this mesoscale atmospheric circulation on coastal waters is the wind stress exerted on the water affecting currents and vertical turbulent mixing, whereas the dominant effect of the coastal waters on the sea-and-land breezes is the establishment of a horizontal temperature gradient which generates local atmospheric wind circulations.
The conservation laws for each system are also briefly summarized as is the physical mechanism which generates the sea-and-land breezes. The effects of oil spills on the interaction is discussed and questions are raised which need further study. It is concluded that investigators of this ocean-atmosphere interaction must be knowledgeable in meteorology, as well as in oceanography and limnology.
Something to sink your teeth into. For instance, had no idea interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere were so vital to understanding our weather and the ocean.
For the entire PDF version of this thought-provoking publication, head to the Reviewed Publications page of the Pielke Research Group and find R-22.
Roger A. Pielke was a Professor in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University for 25 years, and for the last few years, have been a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He was also State Climatologist for Colorado and President of the American Association of State Climatologists. For more on Dr. Pielke's vast climate change research, visit his ClimateSci blog here.
Upon coming across a page filled with brief descriptions of the reviewed published works of esteemed climatologist Roger A. Pielke, Sr. I came across this quite interesting marine-oriented piece accepted for publication back in 1980 while R.A. Pielke was part of the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. 
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