Articles | Volume 8, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3199-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3199-2015
Development and technical paper
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08 Oct 2015
Development and technical paper |  | 08 Oct 2015

A new sub-grid surface mass balance and flux model for continental-scale ice sheet modelling: testing and last glacial cycle

K. Le Morzadec, L. Tarasov, M. Morlighem, and H. Seroussi

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