Snow patch and glacier size distributions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 495-501

  Bahr, David B ^a,b   Meier, Mark F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Research and Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIER; MASS BALANCE; SNOW;

EID: 0033979131     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900319     Document Type: Article

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