Articles | Volume 5, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-589-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-589-2011
Research article
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22 Jul 2011
Research article |  | 22 Jul 2011

Dust from the dark region in the western ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet

I. G. M. Wientjes, R. S. W. Van de Wal, G. J. Reichart, A. Sluijs, and J. Oerlemans

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