Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-167-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-167-2013
Research article
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31 Jan 2013
Research article |  | 31 Jan 2013

Environmental controls on the thermal structure of alpine glaciers

N. J. Wilson and G. E. Flowers

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