Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-205-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-205-2013
Research article
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01 Feb 2013
Research article |  | 01 Feb 2013

Analysis of the snow-atmosphere energy balance during wet-snow instabilities and implications for avalanche prediction

C. Mitterer and J. Schweizer

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