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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-209-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-209-2014
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03 Feb 2014
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Brief Communication: Further summer speedup of Jakobshavn Isbræ

I. Joughin, B. E. Smith, D. E. Shean, and D. Floricioiu

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