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Snow cover dynamics and hydrological regime of the Hunza River basin, Karakoram Range, Northern Pakistan
A. A. Tahir
Laboratoire Hydrosciences – UMR5569 (CNRS, IRD, Montpellier University 1 & 2), CC57, Université Montpellier 2, 34095, MONTPELLIER CEDEX 5, France
P. Chevallier
Laboratoire Hydrosciences – UMR5569 (CNRS, IRD, Montpellier University 1 & 2), CC57, Université Montpellier 2, 34095, MONTPELLIER CEDEX 5, France
Y. Arnaud
Laboratoire des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement – UMR5564 (CNRS, IRD, Université Joseph Fourrier, Grenoble INP), LGGE, 54 rue Molière, Domaine Universitaire, BP 96, 38402, SAINT MARTIN d'HERES CEDEX, France
B. Ahmad
Director (Environment), Natural Resources Division, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, G1/5, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 631–648, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-631-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-631-2024, 2024
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Eunsang Cho, Yonghwan Kwon, Sujay V. Kumar, and Carrie M. Vuyovich
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 4039–4056, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4039-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4039-2023, 2023
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 933–952, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-933-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-933-2023, 2023
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Michael Schirmer and John W. Pomeroy
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 143–157, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-143-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-143-2020, 2020
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Todd A. N. Redpath, Pascal Sirguey, and Nicolas J. Cullen
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Alejandra Stehr and Mauricio Aguayo
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 4261–4275, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4261-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4261-2014, 2014
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