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Articles | Volume 25, issue 6
Articles | Volume 25, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3017-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3017-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 25, issue 6
Research article
 | 
04 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 04 Jun 2021

Investigating ANN architectures and training to estimate snow water equivalent from snow depth

Konstantin F. F. Ntokas, Jean Odry, Marie-Amélie Boucher, and Camille Garnaud

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