Articles | Volume 17, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-3005-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-3005-2013
Research article
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01 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 01 Aug 2013

Statistical modelling of the snow depth distribution in open alpine terrain

T. Grünewald, J. Stötter, J. W. Pomeroy, R. Dadic, I. Moreno Baños, J. Marturià, M. Spross, C. Hopkinson, P. Burlando, and M. Lehning

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