In what ways are land & sea breeze similar to Asian monsoon circulation

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Similarities between land & sea breeze are as follows:-
1) In land & sea breeze land & sea/ocean is involved.
                                                                            Here, land (but subcontinent or apart of the subcontinent) & ocean/sea (never a lake or minor water body) is involved.
2)It is caused due to thermal contrast between land & sea due to differential specific heat capacity of land & water.
                                                                         In Asian monsoon circulation, thermal contrasts during the different seasons (especially summer & winter when contrasts are maximum) between land & sea is it's cause, due to difference in specific heat capacity between land & water.
3)In land & sea breeze both horizontal & vertical heat transfers occur.
                                                                 In Asian monsoon circulation, both horizontal & vertical heat transfers occur.
 4)In land & sea breeze, cumulous cloud formation is encouraged by it's circulation.
                                                                    In Asian monsoon circulation, more than one type of cloud formation occurs.
5) Day time sea breeze is directed from a relatively cool high pressure sea (high pressure divergence) to a distinctly warm land (low pressure convergence).
                                                                    In Asian monsoon circulation, during the summer monsoons the winds are on-shore directed from relatively high pressure areas to warm land.Eg.-Macernes high over Indian ocean & heat low over north-west India during south-west monsoon.
6) The oppositely directed land breeze occurs at night when less energy is available with low pressure over the water body & high pressure over land.
                                                                    In Asian monsoon circulation, the  winter monsoon or winter season there is anticyclogenesis over land resulting in off-shore winds.
Dissimilarities between land & sea breeze are as follows:-
1)land or sea breeze is tertiary circulation or local flow.
                                     In Asian monsoon circulation, it’s a global planetary circulation.
2) land & sea breeze is restricted to the land close to the bank of the lake or the coastal area.
                                                       In Asian monsoon circulation, it affects a huge land masses.-Indian subcontinent affected by south-west monsoon.
3)Velocity of sea breeze which is a part of land-sea breeze circulation has a velocity of 4 to 7 meters per second.
                                                         In Asian monsoon circulation, velocity of jet stream which is an important part of monsoon mechanism blows at a velocity of 110-184 Km/hr.
4) Land & sea breeze is a daily phenomenon.
                                                                        In Asian monsoon circulation, it’s seasonal phenomenon.
5) Land & sea breeze is not related to floods 7 droughts in an area if it fails.
            In Asian monsoon circulation, failure or excess will lead to droughts or floods.
6)Land & sea breeze only forms due to differential heating rate between land & sea.
                                                                                            In Asian monsoon circulation, it’s mechanism of formation is complex including movement of westerlies,jet stream,ENSO circulation apart rom differential heating of land & sea due to movement of sun.
7)Land & sea breeze encourages the development of front.Eg.-sea breeze front.
                                                                                       In Asian monsoon circulation, allows no frontal development.

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