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Acquisition of isotopic composition for surface snow in East Antarctica and the links to climatic parameters
Alexandra Touzeau
Amaëlle Landais
Barbara Stenni
Ryu Uemura
Kotaro Fukui
Shuji Fujita
Sarah Guilbaud
Alexey Ekaykin
Mathieu Casado
Eugeni Barkan
Boaz Luz
Olivier Magand
Grégory Teste
Emmanuel Le Meur
Mélanie Baroni
Joël Savarino
Ilann Bourgeois
Camille Risi
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