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Three Cardington turbulence probes were operated at heights of 61, 91, and 152 m over a 5-h period in an unstable boundary layer. The results have been used to assess (at the middle level) the relative importance of the terms in the turbulence equations for kinetic energy, temperature variance, stress, and the vertical and total horizontal heat fluxes.
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Rayment, R., Caughey, S.J. An investigation of the turbulence balance equations in the atmospheric boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 11, 15–26 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00221820
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