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formed the simulations and prepared the manuscript with contribu-
tions from both co-authors.
Competing interests. The authors declare that they have no con-
flict of interest.
Acknowledgements. The authors gratefully acknowledge the
Gauss Center for Supercomputing e. V. (http://www.gauss-centre.
eu, last access: 19 November 2020) for funding this project by pro-
viding computing time on the GCS supercomputer SuperMUC at
the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ; http://www.lrz.de, last
access: 19 November 2020).
Financial support. The article processing charges for this open-
access publication were covered by a Research Center of the
Helmholtz Association.
Review statement. This paper was edited by Sandrine Aubrun
and reviewed by Paul van der Laan and two anonymous referees.
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