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The official report on this first comprehensive field experiment in boundary-layer meteorology was published 1957 in two volumes, edited by Lettau and Davidson (hereafter L&D). The official report is supplemented in this paper by relevant pre-history developments and a discussion of some selected post-history interpretations and follow-up experiments.
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Lettau, H. The O'Neill experiment of 1953. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 50, 1–9 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00120515
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