Question 45 1 pts Your team is exploring the possibility of wind power along the

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Question 45 1 pts Your team is exploring the possibility of wind power along the coast. You want the windmills to be facing into the wind to maximize the energy generation, so you need to understand how water and land heat up and cool down to predict onshore and offshore breezes. Which of the following is true? Onshore and offshore breezes are controlled by Ekman transport The heat capacity of water is much lower than that of land oAir over cool parts of Earth's surface heats up and rises into the atmosphere creating convection cells. Water stays relatively cool during the day compared to land.

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Water stays relatively cool during the day compared to land. this is because water heats up much more slowly than land and so the air above the land will be warmer compared to the air over the ocean.  The warm air over the land will rise throughout the day, causing low pressure at the surface. Over the water, high surface pressure will form because of the colder air. To compensate, the air will sink over the ocean. The wind will blow from the higher pressure over the water to lower pressure over the land causing the sea breeze.

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