Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-1083-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-1083-2011
Research article
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30 Nov 2011
Research article |  | 30 Nov 2011

Micrometeorological processes driving snow ablation in an Alpine catchment

R. Mott, L. Egli, T. Grünewald, N. Dawes, C. Manes, M. Bavay, and M. Lehning

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