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Expressions for the vertical and the lateral diffusivity coefficients were derived from the Local Similarity Theory and the Statistical Diffusion Theory. For such, the spectral density energies for the turbulent velocities were used. The expressions here derived are compared with the diffusivity coefficients for momentum and heat suggested by Sorbjan (from the Minnesota experiments) and Nieuwstadt (from the Cabauw experiments). This comparison allows us to conclude that turbulence is equally efficient in transporting momentum, heat and contaminants in an ideally stable boundary layer.
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Degrazia, G.A., Moraes, O.L.L. A model for eddy diffusivity in a stable boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 58, 205–214 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02033824
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