Articles | Volume 8, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-181-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-181-2014
Research article
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30 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 30 Jan 2014

Probabilistic parameterisation of the surface mass balance–elevation feedback in regional climate model simulations of the Greenland ice sheet

T. L. Edwards, X. Fettweis, O. Gagliardini, F. Gillet-Chaulet, H. Goelzer, J. M. Gregory, M. Hoffman, P. Huybrechts, A. J. Payne, M. Perego, S. Price, A. Quiquet, and C. Ritz

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