Articles | Volume 6, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-1527-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-1527-2012
Research article
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19 Dec 2012
Research article |  | 19 Dec 2012

Linking glacier annual mass balance and glacier albedo retrieved from MODIS data

M. Dumont, J. Gardelle, P. Sirguey, A. Guillot, D. Six, A. Rabatel, and Y. Arnaud

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