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A particle based simulation model for glacier dynamics
J. A. Åström
CSC – IT Center for Science, P.O. Box 405, 02101, Esbo, Finland
T. I. Riikilä
Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
T. Tallinen
Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
T. Zwinger
CSC – IT Center for Science, P.O. Box 405, 02101, Esbo, Finland
Department of Geology, University Centre in Svalbard, 9171 Longyearbyen, Norway
School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, Fife, KY16 8ST, UK
J. C. Moore
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, PL122, 96100 Rovaniemi, Finland
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, Uppsala, 75236, Sweden
J. Timonen
Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
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