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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-359-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-359-2011
Research article
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05 May 2011
Research article |  | 05 May 2011

Melting trends over the Greenland ice sheet (1958–2009) from spaceborne microwave data and regional climate models

X. Fettweis, M. Tedesco, M. van den Broeke, and J. Ettema

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