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A spurious jump in the satellite record: has Antarctic sea ice expansion been overestimated?
I. Eisenman
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
W. N. Meier
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
J. R. Norris
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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