Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-1011-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-1011-2011
Research article
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16 Nov 2011
Research article |  | 16 Nov 2011

A preliminary assessment of glacier melt-model parameter sensitivity and transferability in a dry subarctic environment

A. H. MacDougall, B. A. Wheler, and G. E. Flowers

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