RETRACTED: Large-eddy simulation of the hurricane boundary layer: Evaluation of the planetary boundary-layer parametrizations

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article was retracted at the request of the Editor in Chief. Significant errors in the data were detected in the manuscript outlined as follow: (1) Physically flawed modelling setup, the LES run presented in the manuscript was forced by the sea surface temperature (SST) and set it to be constant throughout the simulation and (2) Misleading results and inappropriate comparison. In this study, the LES domain only covers an area of roughly 22X22 km2, whereas the domain of mesoscale simulation covers an area of 800X800 km2.Furthermore this article presents a dispute among the original research group about authorship. We would like to apologize to readers for not detecting these problems during the review process.