Modeling of Pleistocene European Ice Sheets: Some Experiments with Simple Mass-Balance Parameterizations
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عنوان ژورنال: Quaternary Research
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0033-5894,1096-0287
DOI: 10.1016/0033-5894(81)90115-0