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A higher-order-closure model, which contains equations for turbulence covariances as well as the mean field, was developed and used to investigate the structure of the stably-stratified planetary boundary layer. The calculated surface-layer profiles of wind shear, temperature gradient, and dissipation rate agree well with the 1968 Kansas data. A simulation of the evolution of the nocturnal PBL reproduces fairly accurately some observations from the 1973 Minnesota experiments.
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Wyngaard, J.C. Modeling the planetary boundary layer — Extension to the stable case. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 9, 441–460 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00223393
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