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Global glacier changes: a revised assessment of committed mass losses and sampling uncertainties
S. H. Mernild
Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling Group, Computational Physics and Methods, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Glaciology and Climate Change Laboratory, Center for Scientific Studies/Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECs), Chile
W. H. Lipscomb
Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling Group, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
D. B. Bahr
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Institut für Geographie, Universität Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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