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Fig. 6: Temporal variation of grass temperature (dashed) and total snow depth (solid) measured at the ANETZ- 
station Basel-Binningen (Switzerland) (15km south to Mulhouse) for Winter 1990/91. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
We would like to thank the following persons who contributed to this study: Gene Poe and 
Paul Dupont (Naval Research Laboratory) for placing the SSM/I interpolation routines at ours disposal, 
Fabrizia Cattaneo (esrin/Frascati) for supplying the SSM/I data, Michael F. Baumgartner for providing the 
NOAA and Meteosat data and the people at the "Swiss Meterological Office" (Zurich, Switzerland) for the 
operation of the meteorological network. This work has been funded by "Swiss National Scientific Foundation" 
NF contract Nr. 20-33690.92. 
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