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An empirical formula for the height of the coastal internal boundary layer

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Observations of the height of the daytime coastal internal boundary layer at several sites are used to justify an empirical formula in the Offshore and Coastal Dispersion (OCD) model, which states that the boundary-layer slope is 0.1 in the first 2km from the shoreline, and 0.03 therafter.

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Hanna, S.R. An empirical formula for the height of the coastal internal boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 40, 205–207 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00140077

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