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A comparison between various parameterizations for the bulk transfercoefficient for heat and momentum is carried out for a wide range ofatmospheric stability and values of the roughness lengths for momentum and heat,z0m and z0h respectively.It is confirmed that the parameterization of Launiainen compares wellto a numerical iterative solution for the Obukhov length L as function of the gradients of wind speed and temperatureover a limited range of z0m/z0h and stability conditions.For 0m/z0h > 500, an alternativeinterpolation formulation of Holtslag and Ek,in combination with the formulation of Launiainen, provides a better approximation.
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van den Hurk, B., HOLTSLAG, A. On the bulk parameterization of surface fluxes for various conditions and parameter ranges . Boundary-Layer Meteorology 82, 119–133 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000245600901
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