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Hess, G.D. Reply to “Comments on: The Neutral, Barotropic Planetary Boundary Layer Capped by a Low-level Inversion”. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 119, 181–194 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-005-9013-9

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