Articles | Volume 7, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-667-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-667-2013
Research article
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18 Apr 2013
Research article |  | 18 Apr 2013

An approach to derive regional snow lines and glacier mass change from MODIS imagery, western North America

J. M. Shea, B. Menounos, R. D. Moore, and C. Tennant

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