Snow/ice and cloud responses to future climate change around Hokkaido

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 205-208

  Matsumura, Shinji ^a   Sato, Tomonori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84891481925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2011-052     Document Type: Article

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