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Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-281-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-281-2019
Research article
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29 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 29 Jan 2019

Estimation of the Antarctic surface mass balance using the regional climate model MAR (1979–2015) and identification of dominant processes

Cécile Agosta, Charles Amory, Christoph Kittel, Anais Orsi, Vincent Favier, Hubert Gallée, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Jan Melchior van Wessem, Willem Jan van de Berg, and Xavier Fettweis

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