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The length of the world's glaciers – a new approach for the global calculation of center lines
H. Machguth
Arctic Technology Center, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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