Mass-balance modelling of the Greenland ice sheet: A comparison of an energy-balance and a degree-day model

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 23, Issue , 1996, Pages

  Van De Wal, R S W ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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