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Observations at 5 sites have been analyzed to determine relations among variables used to assess the effect of stability on dispersion. The variables compared were Monin-Obukhov length, Richardson number, bulk Richardson number and Pasquill and Turner categories. All the relationships differ with different terrain roughness.
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Golder, D. Relations among stability parameters in the surface layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 3, 47–58 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00769106
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