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  1. ; ; ; (, Geophysical Research Letters)
    Abstract The transition from moderate to weak turbulence regimes remains a grand challenge for stable boundary layer parameterizations in weather and climate models. In this study, a critical horizontal Froude number (≈0.28) is proposed to characterize such a transition, which corresponds to the development of quasi two‐dimensional pancake vortices. Traditionally defined stability parameters corresponding to the critical horizontal Froude number are estimated and are consistent with values in the literature. The critical horizontal Froude number can recover previously used height‐ and site‐dependent mean wind speed thresholds. These findings offer a way to constrain the validity range of Monin‐Obukhov similarity theory in numerical models for weather and pollutants dispersion. 
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