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Original Articles

Towards a climate-driven simulation of coupled surface-subsurface hydrology at the continental scale: a Canadian example

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Pages 11-27 | Received 09 Jan 2019, Accepted 22 Aug 2019, Published online: 21 Oct 2019

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