Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-67-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-67-2013
Research article
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21 Jan 2013
Research article |  | 21 Jan 2013

An analysis of present and future seasonal Northern Hemisphere land snow cover simulated by CMIP5 coupled climate models

C. Brutel-Vuilmet, M. Ménégoz, and G. Krinner

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