Twenty-one years of mass balance observations along the K-transect, West Greenland

Earth System Science Data

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-35

  Van De Wal, R S W ^a   Boot, W ^a   Smeets, C J P P ^a   Snellen, H ^a   Van Den Broeke, M R ^a   Oerlemans, J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84995323619     PISSN: 18663508     EISSN: 18663516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/essd-4-31-2012     Document Type: Article

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