Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1205-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1205-2013
Research article
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05 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 05 Aug 2013

Micrometeorological conditions and surface mass and energy fluxes on Lewis Glacier, Mt Kenya, in relation to other tropical glaciers

L. I. Nicholson, R. Prinz, T. Mölg, and G. Kaser

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