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Research article
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20 Aug 2013
Research article |
| 20 Aug 2013
Spectral reflectance of solar light from dirty snow: a simple theoretical model and its validation
A. Kokhanovsky
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, O. Hahn Allee 1, 28334 Bremen, Germany
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