Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1399-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1399-2013
Research article
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16 Sep 2013
Research article |  | 16 Sep 2013

Snow on the Ross Ice Shelf: comparison of reanalyses and observations from automatic weather stations

L. Cohen and S. Dean

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