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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5423-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5423-2021
Research article
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07 Dec 2021
Research article |  | 07 Dec 2021

Elements of future snowpack modeling – Part 2: A modular and extendable Eulerian–Lagrangian numerical scheme for coupled transport, phase changes and settling processes

Anna Simson, Henning Löwe, and Julia Kowalski

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