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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-1077-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-1077-2012
Research article
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02 Oct 2012
Research article |  | 02 Oct 2012

Simulating the growth of supraglacial lakes at the western margin of the Greenland ice sheet

A. A. Leeson, A. Shepherd, S. Palmer, A. Sundal, and X. Fettweis

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