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Field data collected over land and water near Point Lay, Alaska, yielded determinations of the aerodynamic roughness lengths and drag coefficients over three locations on an arctic barrier island and over the Chukchi Sea. The agreement between the results over the sea and previous published results from data taken at approximately the same latitude in the Beaufort Sea is excellent.
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Walters, C.D. Drag coefficient and roughness length determinations on an Alaskan Arctic Coast during summer. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 8, 235–237 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00241340
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00241340