Articles | Volume 8, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-2031-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-2031-2014
Research article
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05 Nov 2014
Research article |  | 05 Nov 2014

Fluctuations of a Greenlandic tidewater glacier driven by changes in atmospheric forcing: observations and modelling of Kangiata Nunaata Sermia, 1859–present

J. M. Lea, D. W. F. Mair, F. M. Nick, B. R. Rea, D. van As, M. Morlighem, P. W. Nienow, and A. Weidick

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