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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1513-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1513-2013
Research article
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25 Sep 2013
Research article |  | 25 Sep 2013

Meteorological drivers of ablation processes on a cold glacier in the semi-arid Andes of Chile

S. MacDonell, C. Kinnard, T. Mölg, L. Nicholson, and J. Abermann

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