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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-1809-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-1809-2013
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13 May 2013
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Reducing cloud obscuration of MODIS snow cover area products by combining spatio-temporal techniques with a probability of snow approach

V. López-Burgos, H. V. Gupta, and M. Clark

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