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Received: Oct 5, 2020
Accepted: Dec 1, 2020
Published online: Apr 22, 2021
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Discussion open until: Sep 22, 2021

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Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Ave., London, ON, Canada N6A 5B9 (corresponding author). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5622-1986. Email: [email protected]
Professor, Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory, Univ. of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Ave., London, ON, Canada N6A 3K7. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0784-3014. Email: [email protected]

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