Marine Inversions
 
     
 

picture from http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/AS2/scrns /inversions/Note03.html

  Marine Inversions occur in places near large bodies of water, especially in the spring when the water is the most chilly.
  When air passes over these large bodies of water, it is cooled by the heat getting conducted from the air to the water.
  This cold air is then blown inland under the warmer air that is over the land, thus creating an inversion.
   
 
     

 

 

 

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