Snow melting bias in microwave mapping of Antarctic snow accumulation
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Snow melting bias in microwave mapping of Antarctic snow accumulation O. Magand, G. Picard, L. Brucker, M. Fily, and C. Genthon Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble, 54 Rue Molière, BP 96, 38402 St Martin d’Hères Cedex, France Received: 13 February 2008 – Accepted: 4 March 2008 – Published: 24 April 2008 Correspondence to: G. Picard ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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