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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement: The Mystery of Missing Water From Mountain Sources
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(TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility issued the following news: On the westward side of the Rocky Mountains, the Upper Colorado River Basin has historically been a wintertime storage bin for snowpack, the compressed remnants of months of
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