Articles | Volume 18, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4601-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4601-2014
Research article
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24 Nov 2014
Research article |  | 24 Nov 2014

Application of MODIS snow cover products: wildfire impacts on snow and melt in the Sierra Nevada

P. D. Micheletty, A. M. Kinoshita, and T. S. Hogue

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