Articles | Volume 8, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-73-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-73-2014
Research article
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10 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 10 Jan 2014

A satellite-based snow cover climatology (1985–2011) for the European Alps derived from AVHRR data

F. Hüsler, T. Jonas, M. Riffler, J. P. Musial, and S. Wunderle

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