On the linear theory of the land and sea breeze.

Given that the earth's atmosphere may be idealized as a rotating, stratified fluid characterized by the Coriolis parameter f and the Brunt-Vaisala frequency N, and that the diurnal cycle of heating and cooling of the land relative to the sea acts as a stationary, oscillatory source of energy, it follows from the linear theory of motion that where f is more than omega the atmospheric response is confined to within a given distance of the coastline.-from Author