Ocean warming weakens the sea–land breeze in coastal megacities
Jialei Zhu
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02618-9 The sea–land breeze acts to counter urban heat in many coastal cities. Here the authors simulate how this circulation changes with warming ocean water, showing that it decreases in most of them, adding heat stress to urban areas.