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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1869-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1869-2013
Research article
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12 Dec 2013
Research article |  | 12 Dec 2013

A ten-year record of supraglacial lake evolution and rapid drainage in West Greenland using an automated processing algorithm for multispectral imagery

B. F. Morriss, R. L. Hawley, J. W. Chipman, L. C. Andrews, G. A. Catania, M. J. Hoffman, M. P. Lüthi, and T. A. Neumann

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