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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1707-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1707-2013
Research article
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11 Nov 2013
Research article |  | 11 Nov 2013

An upper-bound estimate for the accuracy of glacier volume–area scaling

D. Farinotti and M. Huss

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