Implications of Sea Breeze Circulations on boundary layer aerosols in the southern coastal Texas region

Subba, Tamanna; Jensen, Michael P.; Deng, Min; Giangrande, Scott E.; Harvey, Mark C.; Singh, Ashish; Wang, Die; Zawadowicz, Maria; Kuang, Chongai

doi:10.5194/acp-26-2853-2026

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-2853-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 26, issue 4

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26 Feb 2026

Research article |

| 26 Feb 2026

Implications of Sea Breeze Circulations on boundary layer aerosols in the southern coastal Texas region

Tamanna Subba, Michael P. Jensen, Min Deng, Scott E. Giangrande, Mark C. Harvey, Ashish Singh, Die Wang, Maria Zawadowicz, and Chongai Kuang

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sfcmetradaq-tceq: cleaned 5-minute resolution air quality and meteorological data from nine TCEQ CAMS sites in Houston, Texas (Nov 2021-Oct 2022) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) https://doi.org/10.5439/2587278

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Using TRacking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment field campaign observations and model simulations, we studied summertime sea-breeze events in southern Texas. When sea-breeze fronts moved inland, they mixed marine and continental air, changing aerosol concentrations by up to a factor of two as far as 50 km inland. The sea breeze also reduced the number of particles that can form cloud droplets, highlighting the connection between coastal meteorology and aerosol-cloud interactions.