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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2517-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2517-2016
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25 Oct 2016
Research article |  | 25 Oct 2016

Scaling-up permafrost thermal measurements in western Alaska using an ecotype approach

William L. Cable, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, and M. Torre Jorgenson

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