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SUBMITTER: Ahlstrom AP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5729017 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahlstrøm Andreas P AP Petersen Dorthe D Langen Peter L PL Citterio Michele M Box Jason E JE
Science advances 20171213 12
The recent decades of accelerating mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet have arisen from an increase in both surface meltwater runoff and ice flow discharge from tidewater glaciers. Despite the role of the Greenland ice sheet as the dominant individual cryospheric contributor to sea level rise in recent decades, no observational record of its mass loss spans the 30-year period needed to assess its climatological state. We present for the first time a 40-year (1975-2014) time series of observed m ...[more]