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Comment on “Direct Numerical Simulation of the Turbulent Ekman Layer: Evaluation of Closure Models”

Juan Carlos Bergmann Hamburg, Germany

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01 May 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0197.1
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1893–1898
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Corresponding author address: Juan Bergmann, Postfach 500625, 22706 Hamburg, Germany. E-mail: aeolicus@web.de

The original article that was the subject of this comment/reply can be found at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAS-D-11-0107.1.

Corresponding author address: Juan Bergmann, Postfach 500625, 22706 Hamburg, Germany. E-mail: aeolicus@web.de

The original article that was the subject of this comment/reply can be found at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAS-D-11-0107.1.

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