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An operational Planetary Boundary Layer model which employs similarity principles and two-layer patching to provide state-of-the-art parameterization for the PBL flow is used to study the popularly used similarity functions, A and B. The expected trends with stratification are shown. The effects of baroclinicity, secondary flow, humidity, latitude, surface roughness variation and choice of characteristic height scale are discussed.
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Brown, R.A. On two-layer models and the similarity functions for the PBL. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 24, 451–463 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00120733
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