Contrasting patterns of early twenty-first-century glacier mass change in the Himalayas

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2012-08-22

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature11324PMID 22914167
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