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Internal Boundary Layer
A transition layer rising downwind of a change of surface roughness, which separates the air below, which has adjusted to the new surface, from the air above, which is still influenced by the old upwind surface. The internal boundary layer has an average slope of about 1/100 to 1/10.
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