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Snow-sensing fleet to unlock water's icy secrets

Airborne experiments aim to fill in the blanks of global water resources as the climate changes.

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Witze, A. Snow-sensing fleet to unlock water's icy secrets. Nature 532, 17 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/532017a

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