Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-971-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-971-2017
Research article
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18 Apr 2017
Research article |  | 18 Apr 2017

Surface-layer turbulence, energy balance and links to atmospheric circulations over a mountain glacier in the French Alps

Maxime Litt, Jean-Emmanuel Sicart, Delphine Six, Patrick Wagnon, and Warren D. Helgason

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