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30 Apr 2014
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| 30 Apr 2014
Snow density climatology across the former USSR
X. Zhong
State key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
T. Zhang
College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0449, USA
College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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